Emergency flasher light level

Its easier than that, Doug. The red button unscrews; behind it is an ordinary 12V light bulb. Pull yours and take it with you to some chain-auto parts store to find a lower wattage bulb with the same base & dimensions. Someone may already have done this and got too big a bulb. But you're not necessarily stuck with it. I try VERY hard not to modify the Pantera wiring; these girls are temperamental!

Doug,

The value of the resistor on the switch that comes with a resistor is 120 ohms. It should be a two watt resistor, as the bulb is rated at 1.65 watts.

While I don't have a pic of the switch that you have, I've attached a pic of the two that are used on the Pantera.

Left is an early switch without the instrument panel lighting. Right is a later switch with the instrument panel lighting.

John

What, there's a light in there?

It only comes on when the flashers are operating, right?

If so - who cares how bright it is in an emergency situation?

Doug - Thank you for driving around with your flashers on so as to draw more attention to the Marque!



(you know I am kidding, of course...)

The simplest thing to do is pull out the bulb. I am not going behind this dash again.

Chuck,

The later cars had the switch button illuminated when the instrument lights were turned on, as well as when the flashers were activated.

The early cars were illuminated only when the flashers were turned on.

The button on the late switch had "HAZARD" written on it; the early switch button was blank.

These switch buttons unscrew, and (usually) can be interchanged.

One of the problems when replacing an early switch with a late one, is that the early switch has a terminal #30b, and the replacement switch does not have a terminal #30b. Instead, the replacement switch has a terminal #58d.

What usually happens is that the installer has one "extra" wire and one "extra" terminal, so that "extra" wire gets connected to the "extra" terminal.

What happens then is that when the ignition switch is turned on, the hazard switch's internal light is illuminated continuously, until the ignition switch is turned off.

This doesn't appear to be Doug's issue. Doug apparently has a replacement hazard switch without the resistor for the internal light.

If your hazard switch doesn't illuminate when the instrument lights are switched on, and you have the late switch (with the resistor across the back of the switch), you can connect a wire to the yellow/black instrument light wiring and connect it to terminal #58d on the back of the hazard switch.

John

Thank you everyone. I will work on this tomorrow and let you know how it turns out?


OK Boss, I have the red lens off and see the bulb. HOW does the bulb come out? If I try to turn it, the entire inner assembly rotates?


John, I have one like yours with the resistor and two like the other without it and without the terminal to solder it too.