quote Originally posted by Marvin McInnis: You may be right, but I'll bet that if you were to peel up that black dot you would find nothing there but circuit traces.

wow, that is super simple on the fiero! ratshack might not have that gauge of wire, but im sure one of the auto part stores sells a reel of it.

yea thats all i would find. and destroy the circuit as well. when my money comes in, ill buy one to shred. at least i can see the how many traces it has. my brother was telling me it can be done with a 555 timer. i wouldnt be suprised if thats all it is.

quote Originally posted by Dodgerunner: The problem is the Fiero flasher is it is before the switch so it has the fuse power on the input side all the time so the 3 tab with an added ground would be pulsing all the time. In order to use a 3 tab you would have to move the flasher to the other side of the turn switch so that power would be applied by the switch. That might be doable fairly easy though.

R2 in the schematics is the Reset on the flasher. When it detects a ground it resets the flasher. That flasher's Logic is...

Pause
ON
Pause
OFF
STOP

So when the STOP happens the Reset detects the ground to reset it if the Turn switch is still in the turn direction.

If the flasher was after the switch then they would have had to over complicate the wiring and the switch Or would have to have two flashers just for turn signals.

So yes just extending the pins and grounding the ground will do what you want.

quote Originally posted by Marvin McInnis: You don't need a diode; a short piece of 16 AWG wire will do an even better job of it. (I don't know whether Radio Shack even stocks wire any more, since it doesn't conform to their current "cell phones and toys" business model.)

Hell, I did that to my 1967 Catalina when I replaced the headlights with 4 12 volt aircraft landing lights 18 years ago.

quote Originally posted by buddycraigg: Hell, I did that to my 1967 Catalina when I replaced the headlights with 4 12 volt aircraft landing lights 18 years ago.

Great minds think alike. I probably did my first landing light conversion (with type 4509 lamps) back in about 1964 ... to a '63 Pontiac Tempest. I only did the left high beam, though, and that was enough light for me. I made similar conversions to every quad-headlight car I owned for the next 20 years, and to many of my friends' cars, until good quality halogen conversion headlamps became available.

I had a close friend who converted both high beams in his fast 1967 Chevelle to 4509s. Some time thereafter, he was barreling along a deserted rural highway one pitch-black night at about 80 mph when the thermal breaker in the headlight switch tripped. He survived the event, but he soon (after a change of underwear, no doubt) switched back to using only one landing light high beam. Did you have any similar experiences?

quote we seem to think alike a lot of the time. I don't think we should ever hang out drinking... Something might end up getting blown up.

I don't think I've blown up anything significant since high school. But if we had had "Homeland Security" back then, my parents would probably been on a first name basis with them. It's strange to consider that some of our relatively harmless pranks back then ... like loading rolls of toilet paper with M-80s using a very effective but still-secret process ... would be basis for calling out the local bomb squad and/or SWAT team today.

In junior high and high school I was also into building crude "jet engines" from scratch. (I was never short on ideas and half-completed, half-baked science fair projects.) My last jet engine even reached sufficient scale that my dad and an engineer neighbor insisted that I discuss it with the local Fire Marshall before testing, but their plan backfired. The Fire Marshall gave it his blessing, provided only that I stay 20 feet away from any building, and after that there was little they could do to hold me back. After all, the Fire Marshall had approved it! I tested it in the school parking lot, and at that year's state science fair I actually ran the thing numerous times inside the large exhibition building. The boom and roar when it lit off echoed through the barn-like hall, and people would come running from every direction.

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quote Originally posted by buddycraigg: I don't think we should ever hang out drinking... Something might end up getting blown up.

hey buddycraigg, I don't drink, but would not mind helping you blow something up! Got some tannerite?

Kevin

mentioning fertilizer and diesel fuel together in the same sentance will get you on "the" list. along with your IP address.

bah crap! maybe if i throw "Ryder truck" in they will know its a bad joke.

im sure a few of us together with tools in a junk yard and a few beers we can conjure up something that would get us in some trouble haha.or win a nobel prize.

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