Turn Signal & Emergency Flasher Relay

[HBarlow]

Has anyone found a substitute for the quiet turn signal/emergency flasher in your Dodge-Cummins? Admittedly my hearing is not as sharp as it once was but when driving my new HO 3500 around town with A/C on and radio or CD playing I frequently find myself driving along like a geriatric case with my turn signal still flashing after making a lane change a 1/2 mile earlier. My turn signal relay is not loud enough to alert me and I don't notice until I glance down at the guage panel and see the flashing arrow. I tried my local DC dealer and NAPA store for a noisier relay. MOPAR only offers the original equipment relay and NAPA showed no part available. Suggestions anyone? Other than a hearing aid? Thanks.

 

[Thomas]

Harvey,



You won't find one!



Even though the relay looks conventional, it isn't—internally it contains an integrated circuit. The circuitry allows this "flasher" to handle the turn indicator/emergency flasher chores on the truck, act as a heavy-duty flasher with a trailer in tow, and sense when a bulb is blown. You're stuck with one choice.

 

[PHaller]

loud flasher?

Go to radio shack and find yourself a piezo chime... they run about 6$ and solder the leads to your flasher blades. The flasher is in the fuse bay. Pull the flasher and check which flasher blade is + using a vom and hook up the 3 wires as instucted for the chime. Mine has been in for 4 years and works great.

-Paul R. Haller-

P. S. my chime had 3 wires... 2 were soldered togeather at one blade of the flasher, hot lead I think, and the other blade has the negative wire.

 

[HBarlow]

Louder Flasher

Thanks to each of you who replied. I was afraid someone was going to tell me the flasher was unique since NAPA showed no replacement in their computer catalog. I think I will follow the advice to buy and install the chime from Radio Shack. That sounds like a good solution.

 

[DieselDoghouse]

I can check and repost but I think if you solder the piezo buzzer across the 2 vertically aligned pins the audible will operate for turn signal but NOT hazards (which is the way I wanted it) you can double-stick tape the unit to the flasher housing and the entire assembly can be pulled and swapped out, etc. I wouldn't recommend the chime style units, they require longer to power up than the flasher contacts may dwell closed: result = no sound!!!