Retrofitting an Electronic Flasher Relay

[chargin]

23 minutes ago, '76mintgrün'02 said:

My OE flasher wasn't doing its job, so I took the cover off and cleaned these contacts, using the back side of some sand paper.  You can see the black crud that came off.  It appears to be working as it should again.  I feel like I got lucky. 

 

Great job!

 

interesting to see how many more years it will go

 

 

[BK02M5]

Thanks from one more person.  After switching to LEDs, this was just the trick to get the dash light working again.   

[NYNick]

My blinkers on all 4 corners worked. My flashers worked. My dash indicator worked for the flashers, but only blinked once for the blinkers and then stopped. I was just about to do this fix until someone suggested simply reversing the wires inside the front blinkers. Took all of 5 minutes and everything works perfectly now.

 

It's the little things!

[onestogie]

I followed the instructions and installed the Novita Heavy Duty Flasher EL13 from my local Advance Auto Parts in my 1974 BMW 2002. The intermittently functioning dash light now works 100% of the time. I wish the blinker sound was louder, but I can hear it much better than the original flasher.

[gregp553]

One more thing. I had the dashboard green telltale light flashes once only condition. After going through every bulb and wire, cleaning the flasher relay, and cleaning the fuses, I put in a spare hazard switch I had on hand. That corrected the one-blink problem. All lights work like new. This might be written up elsewhere, but it's worth mentioning here.

[Walt_l]

I was able to remove the female spade clips from the original plug and have tried to use an EL13 relay, It works all four corners but no luck on the dash. I only have one terminal on the EL-13 marked as an X, I followed the instructions here and put the correct wire on the X terminal. and took a stab and the other two. One configuration worked everything but the dash. If I switched the leads, it blinks all the time.

 

Any suggestions for getting the dash to work? I KNOW the bulb works or at least it did -- stay on constantly -- before I swapped the relay.

[Road trip]

I used the EL-13 on my 6 fuse 1968

isnt working.

ideas ?

[chargin]

I tried 8 versions before I found the one above that worked for me with LED rears ?

[The Kangaroo Man]

I just used this article to retrofit my flasher relay (rather than paying an arm and a leg for an OEM flasher relay). EL-13 is the exact flasher you want. RockAuto has them for $3-$4. I went through 3 other relays to no avail. EL-13 is the one to go with.

[cmiceli]

i have led in all lights, ran the ef33 everything works great, just have to get the hazard switch to work, don’t think it’s related to the flasher