have this turn signal setup "Fomoco SXTS-6"? was plum full of 10 ga house wire and big perdy orange wire nuts ( same folks wired my dash back in the day - I suspect it was Ronnie Milsap and Stevie Wonder) anyway - would love it if someone had a diagram for this they'd possibly share? Gracias
well...taking a pic up...from the floor towards the ceiling - it's the underside of the column mounted turn signal - only place it's marked with a number - thot i'd start there... here's another from a normal angle...hold your fire fellers...hold yer fire!
Get a DC battery test light and figure it out yourself.. It's not hard.. Then you can say "I did it myself"...
I am not sure if this is the question but if you are trying to determine "which wire goes where" this link was helpful to me after I picked up a turn signal switch where the wires were virtually gone, after I used this link I was able to rewire the switch and use it (in the avatar at the right) http://www.stovebolt.com/techtips/turn_signal.htm
Good chart! I built mine from an original out of a dead '50 Ford, with wires that were all faded to "off-dirt." Here's what I remember fronm doing it long ago, and I am NOT going to go back into the wire harness! Start by getting the switch box out of that Ford one. You can carefully pry the switch open, keeping close track of the bits, and clean and lube the insides. I answered the rest to the best of my memory on Ford Barn thus: Lousy picture, but I can't even post pictures at all! Here's what I think. Don't have time to dig back in the literature... This is a post-1948 switch for shoebox era Fords that was also sold by Ford as an accessory setup for '46-8 type Fords. Switch came in two flavors, one with about 4 or 5 wires for trucks that had separate turn signal lights and 7 wire for passenger cars using stock parking and taillights as the signals. '46-8 Fords need to get parking light sockets for two filament bulbs (same bulb as your tail/brake lamps). Ford used a socket from 1950 Ford. Brake light wire gets re-routed from rear of car to this switch because same filament is brake and signal, so switch turns off the brake connection to whichever lamp is flashing. 4 wires to the 4 lamps, and the tail ones have to be correctly chosen because of brake feature. I never found a kit, and used a switch from about a '50 Ford in junkyard. I had a hell of a time at this until I finally discovered the brake light feature...once I learned that, I spent about half an hour with the switch and a simple circuit tester and identified the use of all the wires. A process with circuit tester, the little flashlight kind: As I recall, wires to lights are at the ends of the switch, other wires near middle. With switch in straight position, find 2 wires at ends that have continuity with a wire near center. You have identified the REAR pair of wires and the terminal that feeds them juice from the switch on master cylinder when brakes are applied. Move lever each way...it will turn off the brake light juice to the side the turn signal is turned to, so you now have R & L rears identified. The other two terminals near ends are the fronts, either can be wired to either side. Another central terminal is the input from the flasher. That's at least most of it...damn near broke my head figuring it out in 1968. Solder new leads to the switch terminals, using and noting down enough colors to allow easy identification of what goes where in your car. If car is stock original, note also that you need a new lead for your right rear turn signal as it can no longer work properly off the the same wire as the other. F Front sockets for two filament bulbs in your parking lights are in the C&G ctalog
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