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Ok so I have a 64 El Camino and all the light work blinkers, break, runnning but not at the same time!!!!! The right blinker doesn't want to work when the break is pressed. But do work when it is depressed. YES, the car is on, but still no blinker, yes I can use my hand signals but come on, the car looks so much better when the light work!!! Please help.

You need to get a good tester and start checking wires,check for power and then follow the wire back to find out why there is no power.
Look for the easy stuff first,broken wires ,smashed wires and worn thru wires from rubbing,wires are not easy ,a good book on your car will show where the wires go and make trouble shooting it much better.
Who knows what has been "rigged" over the years ,thats the reason for the book.

i think you need a new turn singnals switch

Hi,welcome to the forum. I answered more or less this same question last week. Power comes from the brake light switch up the column to the turnsignal switch.There it goes through sets of contacts out to the front and rear signals. Now,the stop and turn share the same wire,bulb filament and ground,so if either one works,your problem is located in the turn signal switch. Hope this helps you, Hank

Originally Posted by halftanked

Hi,welcome to the forum. I answered more or less this same question last week. Power comes from the brake light switch up the column to the turnsignal switch.There it goes through sets of contacts out to the front and rear signals. Now,the stop and turn share the same wire,bulb filament and ground,so if either one works,your problem is located in the turn signal switch. Hope this helps you, Hank

On my way to buy the switch, good call! Funny I was thinking the wires where switched because I could get them all working but not at the same time. Tell you how it turns out!!! Thanks

Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

i think you need a new turn singnals switch

Thanks for your help 3 responses and all good ones!!!!! Not bad for my first time lol

Originally Posted by 22girl22

Thanks for your help 3 responses and all good ones!!!!! Not bad for my first time lol

well i have been told i am good

The complete definitive answer to your quandary was posted in the New Zealand Hot Rod Magazine in the mid 70's. Here is the answer to everybodies problems......hope it helps. (Don't bother thanking me, just send me cash )

Everything you wanted to know about auto electricals.

I will now reveal to you everything you wanted to know about electricity. Forget all that nonsense about magnetic fields and the flow of electrons along a conductor, for it is just that, nonsense…….a myth put about by Auto Electricians to support their lavish lifestyles at your expense. The reality is…….Smoke!

When you think about it, it all becomes startlingly obvious. Smoke makes all electrical things function, and if the smoke escapes the component stops working. For example, the last time you had to grovel under your car to replace the starter motor, didn’t it start smoking before it stopped working? Of course it did!

The wiring loom in your car carries smoke from one device to another, pumped around the system by the dynamo, and when a wire springs a leak it lets all the smoke out and everything stops. The starter motor requires lots of smoke to work properly, so it has a very thick wire going to it.

The battery stores up lots of smoke dissolved in the battery acid, which is why they were once called accumulators, until it became apparent that we unwashed home mechanics would twig to the secret. Naturally, if you try to store too much smoke in your battery it will escape through those little holes in the top, which is why those newfangled batteries with sealed tops explode when they get too much smoke in them.

With regard to Joseph Lucas and his wrongfully sullied reputation, why is he so maligned? Why are Lucas components more likely to leak smoke than, say, Bosch or Marrelli? It’s because Lucas is British, and British things always leak. British motorcycles leak oil, British sports cars leak rain, British hydrolastic units leak fluid, and British Governments leak military secrets.

So, naturally, British electrical components leak smoke.