![]() ![]() If your car is ultra original, then you may want to try repairing the existing sequential flasher, if that is in fact the problem. That - along with the fact that my brake relay and other relay weren't original - made me not worry so much about originality. I had to use the 66 version on my 65, but was an anomaly - I suspect that someone used different 66 replacement components when doing work earlier. The 65 has different connectors basically. IMPORTANT: if you have a 66, you need the unit listed for 66, not 65. For some reason I had a hard time pushing the connectors back together, so I opted for pushing them back as far as I could, then taping over the gap with good quality tape. (Put a towel or mat over the trunk latch so you don't accidentally get locked in.) The connectors were pretty hard to get off the wiring harness I just used some pliers, but be careful as you don't want to destroy the connectors. Not really hard to install.unless you're over 60 like me and have a hard time climbing in a trunk. It costs about $225, and I got mine on ebay. ![]() No more electric motor noise when I use the turn signals, and I've driven the car for several hundred miles with no turn signal malfunctions or issues. ![]() Other's claim success by doing what I did, but it didn't work very well for me, so the second time out I cheated: I bought a Cougar's Unlimited electronic sequential unit, which combines all three components into one unit. Then they went back to doing what they had been doing. You can hear the turn signal servo running from the interior of the car every time you use the turn signals (if the engine idles quietly enough.) So I got into the trunk, pulled the unit out, opened it up and cleaned the contact surfaces off (the sequential flasher is in the white plastic box on the rubber mounting surface, at least on '65's.) Sure enough, the turn signals started working as they were supposed to.for fifty miles. As it turns out, my system had been worked on before, so I don't know if the enclosure might have been something fabricated by a previous owner to one degree or another, but other '65 owners describe a similar mounting setup for their cars.Īnyway, the sequential flasher is kind of primitive because it's essentially a servo turning a cam that brings electrical conductors into contact with each other. The enclosure for it is also fairly crude.in my case, the sequential flasher, a brake light relay and a third unit all mounted on a thick rubber backing surface and wrapped with some insulation and some sort of early duct tape sealing it all up. That unit is a surprisingly primitive electro-mechanical unit located in the forward area of the trunk, at least on the 1965 cars. One of the forums online said that the sequence lights not working right is mostly a matter of cleaning the contacts on the sequential "flasher" unit. I don't know for sure what will be involved in addressing that. This pretty much describes my turn signal function issues when I got my car, with the exception that my front turn signals did work. Two of three sequential turn signals lights working. ![]()
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