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30-08-11, 08:54 AM
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Flashing indicators: The 401 I bought recently was rewired in about 1994. It has semaphores in use, but luckily for me I find a couple of unused wires in the boot, 4 coiled up under the dash and so suspect I'll find 2 more in the engine bay. It looks as though whoever made up the loom anticipated a desire for indicators. I plan to leave the semaphors as they are, and to use these wires to rig up a completely separate indicator switch, lights and flasher unit. As yet I don't know how & its far down my in-tray. But I have bought a brown period bakelite indicator switch, which is a start! Also a landrover series 2 indicator arm which looks the right period and has a wheel, so if clamped to touch the steering column it will self cancel ... nice in theory.
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01-09-11, 11:42 PM
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My 401 had been retrofitted with flashers before I owned it. I reconnected the semaphores on to the proper switch. The semaphores can't support a flasher, I believe, as you can't get a bright bulb that won't melt the orange plastic. You would also need another wire to go into the semaphore for the light and coming from a flasher unit, as you need a constant current to the solenoid that pops up the semaphore. I could have run the flashing system off an auxiliary switch. I deleted the panel light dimmer instead; inserted a multi-position switch in it's place and used the panel switch plastic button, so no change is observable.
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28-06-13, 05:20 PM
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Flashing Semaphores
I came across this thread whilst trying to determine the ease of which I could add indicators to my 403. I am new to the world of Bristols an decided to start by buying a car as a 'box of bits' (I am a glutton for punishment). I have since learned that they originally came with semaphores/ trafficators....
In answer to the flashing semaphore question, the bulbs could be replaced with LEDs, removing the heat issue in respect to an incandescent bulb. An LED flasher unit has to be wired in and then hey presto, flashing trafficators... Another option is white rear lenses with LED tail/ stop/ indicator strips (they will fit in the original lens (I believe) and give the safety of flashing indicators without external modification. This may be a simple view, but then again I have a long way to go before I get my 403 on the road.. Cheers Benn
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