Indicator , cancelling

[V8VAN]

No worries, that's my thing I've learned today. I've swapped out various broken ones with whichever ones I've had handy with no dramas. Maybe I just got lucky lol.

[Dr Terry]

No worries, that's my thing I've learned today. I've swapped out various broken ones with whichever ones I've had handy with no dramas. Maybe I just got lucky lol.

Yeah, as I said they will all interchange & work, but sometimes you can get caught.

I first found this out when I converted an HX Kingswood to power steer for a very fussy customer, many years ago.

We finished the job, had it wheel aligned & gave it back. It drove superbly.

Over the next few weeks, he came in several times telling us how much better the car felt, but also saying that the blinkers wouldn't cancel "sometimes".

We test drove it each time & couldn't fault it & put it down to the customer's imagination, until he became insistent & took me for a test drive to demonstrate the problem.

There was a particular corner not far from our workshop which wasn't a full 90 degree turn, probably more like a 70 degree turn. He could replicate the fault time & time again on this corner.

In the end we found by taking a similar model around the same corner, that it was because the steering wasn't turning far enough to reach the blinker cancelling ridge. What the customer & I hadn't noticed was how much less steering wheel turn was now necessary to round the average corner. It was so much less that it affected the blinker cancel.

I checked the parts book & found the one off a power steering car was a different part number. We fitted it & the problem was solved.

On my next wrecker crawl, I checked out all types of steering wheels (off Toranas, Commodores, Kingswoods & Statesmans etc.) & found at least 4 different gap sizes. I've never had the time to go thru all the parts catalogues to check out which was which. I'm sure there would be some cross-over.

Dr Terry