Signal light replacement

[opasnost]

On my 83 gs 750es I decided to replace the turn signal lights to smaller ones. But of course the new lights are only 10watts as apposed to the 23 watts on stock so they just turn on and stay on and don't blink. I have done some reading here and some suggest that I get a new flasher unit. The old one I pulled out is a two prong kind. But the socket it came from has three slots and three wires.

So my question is what kind of flasher should I replace it with to get my lights to blink?

[Steve]

Sounds like someone already replaced the flasher. I am going to guess that your self-cancelling signals don't self-cancel?


Go to any auto parts store, get a two-prong flasher that will handle low loads. If you can't find one with two prongs, you will have to make some extension wires from the two pins that your current flasher is connected to, to the appropriate terminals on the new flasher unit, connect the new flasher's third terminal to ground. The third terminal in your stock harness is NOT a ground connection.

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[gsgeezer]

Go to any auto parts store, get a two-prong flasher that will handle low loads. If you can't find one with two prongs, you will have to make some extension wires from the two pins that your current flasher is connected to, to the appropriate terminals on the new flasher unit, connect the new flasher's third terminal to ground. The third terminal in your stock harness is NOT a ground connection.
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That is the advise you need!

[opasnost]

I bought an HD12 flasher and popped it in and it works perfect even flashes a little faster which is good. And no, there was no self cancelling. That would be nice how could I go about getting that back.

Thanks Steve that was a big help.

[SVSooke]

Sounds like someone already replaced the flasher. I am going to guess that your self-cancelling signals don't self-cancel?


Go to any auto parts store, get a two-prong flasher that will handle low loads. If you can't find one with two prongs, you will have to make some extension wires from the two pins that your current flasher is connected to, to the appropriate terminals on the new flasher unit, connect the new flasher's third terminal to ground. The third terminal in your stock harness is NOT a ground connection.

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For some reason Suzuki put a 3 prong plug with a 2 prong flasher on these bikes.

[Steve]

Well, looks like I am going to have to stand corrected on this one.

I just looked up in the factory service manual to find that the stock flasher relay IS a three-pin relay,
and that the third wire in the connector IS a ground.

The three wires in the connector:
Orange/green is power that feeds the flasher
Light Blue is the flashing output
Black/white is a ground.

Apparently this model did NOT have self-cancelling signals, so sorry about that.

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