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I am hoping someone may be able to provide an answer to this query. I purchase a dash wiring harness from American Autowire. There are three wires running to the turn signal flasher. Two pink, one heavier gauge, and a black wire. The signal lights do not work. My mechanic compared the installed wiring harness to the AIM and Service manual. Neither electrical schematic shows two pink wires going to the turn signal switch. :unsure::(

Thanks in advance for any information in solving this.

Brian
 
I wonder if AAW got creative with a wiring change.

I only have a 68 Chevy II Nova wiring diagram out of a shop manual but per the diagram off of the fuse block there is a 12 gauge pink and a 20 gauge pink protected by one fuse and the 12 gauge goes to the turn signal flasher plug and the 20 gauge to the reverse light switch plug.

"Maybe" AAW decided to have one 12 gauge wire coming out of the fuse block and have it going to the turn signal flasher plug and then once there another pink wire but in a 20 gauge was also in that same spot and then the 20 gauge went to the reverse light plug ?.

Electrically both setups would work the same.

Jim
 
Brian, I recently installed a Painless wiring harness. Both flasher/turn signal connections are built in to the fuse panel. On the AAW it looks like one is in the fuse panel, but I can't see the other one in their wiring diagram. I can tell you that both the hazard relay and the flasher relay have power in from the fuse panel. Hazards are BAT, on all the time. Turn signal power is KEY ON. The power goes into the flasher relay and out to the turn signal switch. I believe that wire is brown originally. And the flasher for the turn signal goes out to the turn signal switch also and is purple. Only thing I can think of , is the black wire would be to ground the flasher. That is only if you using LED lights and a LED flasher relay. It's easy to test the system at the connector for the turn signal switch.
 
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I wonder if AAW got creative with a wiring change.

I only have a 68 Chevy II Nova wiring diagram out of a shop manual but per the diagram off of the fuse block there is a 12 gauge pink and a 20 gauge pink protected by one fuse and the 12 gauge goes to the turn signal flasher plug and the 20 gauge to the reverse light switch plug.

"Maybe" AAW decided to have one 12 gauge wire coming out of the fuse block and have it going to the turn signal flasher plug and then once there another pink wire but in a 20 gauge was also in that same spot and then the 20 gauge went to the reverse light plug ?.

Electrically both setups would work the same.

Jim
Jim,

I kept the harness removed from the car. Original I think. It is the same as what was provided by American Autowire. I may have mistakenly called the one wire black when it may be purple.

Brian
 
Jim,

I kept the harness removed from the car. Original I think. It is the same as what was provided by American Autowire. I may have mistakenly called the one wire black when it may be purple.

Brian
If the harness you took out and the one that is replacing it are the same, then it's a variation as to what I have on my Chevy II Nova.

I would check if you have 12V on the pink wire with the key in the run position and then with the flasher plugged in, you should have 12V on it's output. If the flasher is a type for LED signals, then you may not show power on it's output side. You might only show power on the other wire with an old standard load type of flasher that when a few amps are pulled through it, a metal strip heats up and then breaks the flow of power, then it cools, reconnects to allow power to flow again, then does the cycle over and over again.

If you do have an LED style flasher, could maybe it's polarity be wrong ?. I've heard of some flashers only working one way in a plug to where a specific terminal of the flasher is the supply voltage side and the other terminal is the output and they do not work if things are flipped.

For a test, one could take the flasher out, turn the ignition on, verify you have 12V on the pink then turn on either a left or right turn signal side and then with a short U shaped piece of wire, short the pink to the other wire in the turn signal flasher socket. If the lights do not come on for that side then there may be a turn signal switch issue.

Jim
 
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Here is AAW's harness schermatic. Hope it helps.


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Thanks for the schematic.
Here is AAW's harness schermatic. Hope it helps.


View attachment 292570
Thank you for the schematic and thanks to those that weighed in on this issue. Being my first attempt at rebuilding I made some mistakes and one of them was in the wiring. My mechanic located what I had done wrong and has since rectified my error. Apparently I had attached a ground wire to a power wire in the center console gauges; not knowing any better. He sent a short video clip of the signal lights working. Lesson learned.
 
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