philip82c@yahoo.com.au

Hey all,

I've just come across this place and hope you can help me out! I've
got an '81 Accord hatch and the turn signals have recently stopped
working. Working the indicator stalk has no results; nothing on the
instrument panel, no clicking sound, none of the external lights
flash. Putting the hazard lights on, however, works fine with all
bulbs lighting. I've looked a bit into this and the fuse looks fine -
I swapped it with another fuse of identical rating to check, and no
difference.

A mechanic friend of mine said it sounded like the flasher can and
showed me where to find it - the little metal drum that the clicking
indicator noise comes from. He suggested there would be one can for
indicators and another can for the hazard lights, and at the very
least I could swap the two around until I could find a replacement
part. Well with only the hazards working I could only locate the
hazard can by following the sound, but I didn't see any similar can
near it - rather, there are two larger cans tied to the hazard can by
a couple of rubber rings, one of them looks to be bolted to the
underside of the dash, but they don't look interchangeable at all.

So I guess I'm wondering where to go from here. Is there a way I can
narrow the problem down to either the stalk assembly, the indicator
can or something else? I just want to know what's causing the problem
before I start looking for replacement parts.

Cheers,
Philip