Morris Minor Owners Club

hi can anyone help?, i have been restoring my car i had the loom out and have everyting working fine, except my indicators, basically i replaced my flasher unit because my tell tale on the end of the stalk was intermittent, i have tried two new flasher units, and when the stalk is parked (not in use) the tell tale is permanently on, i got two because i thought the new flasher was dodgy, they do have different letters on the bottom to the original, is this a problem?, have i got the wrong flasher?, 66 traveller, 3 pin bladed flasher, there are two wires to the switch which are live all the time, this appears to be the fault, and it points to the flasher, any advice would be appreciated, i have the wiring diagram and it all seems to be wired perfect, anyone else came across this?

Take the light green off the flasher unit, is the wire live? Is the lamp still on? If so that light green will have to be traced, somewhere it must be connected to a live wire.

Hello 1mustard,

the two lives seem to be correct, as the flasher has a supply from it's fuse and a feed out to the indicator switch. Until you operate the indicator switch so earthing the feed out via the lamps it will read 12v. The stalk indicator is fed from a separate terminal, which I'm guessing is a normally open. Have you got the two output terminals mixed up as that would give a permanent feed to your indicator stalk lamp?
If you understand when I say that the configuration is like a single pole change over switch, then the feed should be on the common, indicators on the normally closed terminal and stalk lamp on the normally open.

Alec

sorted this out, as i suspected it was a mickey mouse flasher unit that has sent me right up the garden path, i bought three new ones (2 from esm), and they have all been dodgy, so i shelled out £9 for an ebay lucas job, plugged it in and bingo, sorted, wasted alot of time, checking over my tracks for no reason, lesson learnt on that one.
Cheers for your advice all.