Updating 1942 mb willys jeep

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

You could have fitted the mechanical hand signal as they were a common addition to the Aussy Jeeps.
Took a Jeep fitted with one of these to the local Primary School for "Show and "Tell one year. They were fascinated with the hand, 30 thank you letters with drawings delivered next day, 29 of which highlited the Hand, which also came top of the "what I liked best list".
You do not get that reaction with amber lights!!
Nice to see the matter resolved at an acceptable price.
Rich.

[Lang]

Tony,

I hope your old switch is bad after all that trouble but I should tell you I recently fitted a similar switch to a 1915 Willys Overland with small LED lights.

Working perfectly before, now does not go!!!!

The reason is LED does not draw enough power to activate the flasher unit - you can change switches and flasher cans all day long and nothing will happen.

The answer is to put an old fashioned globe in the circuit (hide it up under the dash). If you use a double contact stop/tail globe you only need one. Just solder (or use an old original tail light socket with wires) one filament in to each of the left and right flasher circuits. Of course you can use a separate single globe for each circuit.

This fixed it for me.

Lang

[aj.lec]

Originally Posted by Lang

The reason is LED does not draw enough power to activate the flasher unit - you can change switches and flasher cans all day long and nothing will happen.

The answer is to put an old fashioned globe in the circuit (hide it up under the dash). If you use a double contact stop/tail globe you only need one. Just solder (or use an old original tail light socket with wires) one filament in to each of the left and right flasher circuits. Of course you can use a separate single globe for each circuit.

You can also put a small resistor in series with the circuit

[hrpearce]

Or buy a flasher can marked LED use only

[Little Jo]

Hi Guys

Thanks for getting back to me, some interesting advice and I will surely check it out. The Flasher cannister I have is for LED. I guess it will be a case of trial and error. Hopefully it will all work out as I need it to be working so I can take it to the government garage for their OK so I can get the Jeep registered.

Cheers

Tony

Little Jo