[Healeys] Trafficator

bighealey at charter.net bighealey at charter.net
Thu Aug 6 11:48:57 MDT 2009


Hi Mark,

Sounds like you already did.  If the click is gone something is amiss.

Time to pull it and check it again.

At least it is not a transmission.

Cheers
---- Mark Schneider <mandmschneider at comcast.net> wrote: 
> Listers,
> 
> My BJ8 trafficator was rebuilt about three years ago and has worked  
> fine until the other day.  It has begun failing to cancel the  
> directional signals following a turn, either left or right.  Once in  
> awhile the self-cancelling works but usually not.  The turn signals  
> work electrically the problem seems to be mechanical.     When I  
> engage the trafficator lever, either left or right, the system feels  
> "sticky", it no longer has a mechanical feel of a switch being engaged  
> although the lever remains in the left or right position and the  
> signals work.  Before I again remove the trafficator from the steering  
> column I am wondering if there might be something I could do to check  
> the mechanics of the system in situ. Thanks for any input.
> 
> Marks 3
> '66 BJ8
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