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fredsub has said behind kick panel >> NOPE

Factory reckons it is in the combo switch itself ??

Come on surely someone knows exactly where the bugger hides and will share with big detail , please ?? Prolly different in each change of fuse panel config ????

Just had a look at my car - the flasher can is mounted above the middle of the row of four round relays behind the fuse panel. Didn't fancy pulling it out for a close look, but could see it's a squarish black thing, labelled mitsubishi.

That's in a 6/93 carbied povo pack 4wd L wagon. IIRC my 92 carbie auto parts bitch had it in the same place.

And to confirm something from your major grief thread, that unit ticks for both blinkers and hazards.

Dane.

Dane, you are a Subiegodsend. THANKS HEAPS for going to that extreme to look and confirm. That is one heck of spot to contort one self into in the first place. Dark and dusty too. Contortionism your party trick? The factory diagrams show a common junction in switch but no mention of flash/ticker can in text or diagrams from what I see. Maybe in routine maint section, light bulbs.

For trivia, those four relays are from right to left
LH headlight, RH headlight, rear window demister, TBA

and finally found the mpfi relays
fuel pump with blue connector and IGN? relay on a bracket screwed to steer column above ECU

The L Series dealer parts manual shows the one flasher unit (for both indicators and hazard circuit) to be mounted on a screw above the four relays that are above fuse panel. Prolly made to never need looking at or replacing.

Well CRANKYPANTS is back in here to say he did not find a flasher can/ blinker unit/ turn signal relay wired in any -*&^%@- where under the dash or along the wiring of 3/87 compliance plated, 86 model 4WD turbo auto sedan. Pulled all the stuffings out of Cheap Grief to prove so. Found the short in fuse 6 to be one side of a wire at the blinker harness so cut it so fuse 6 no longer blows. With dash out and everthing disconnected or pulled off the hazards do not work but buzzing inside turn switch on steering column. On the factory trouble shoot flow chart for non working turn lamps if the fuse or bulbs not blown says to replace the turn hazard switch. Sounds like it is an integrated blink facility in the turn/hazard switch. Why the flick ????? trailing off in tears.....

I'm damn sure the manual is correct and its part of the combination switch.
I had the replace the complete unit when mine stuffed up.

this is wear my is aswell.
flasher can is mounted above the middle of the row of four round relays behind the fuse pane

Yeah freakazoid it must be part of the combo switch as in the unit under the steering wheel on the stering column that hold the hazard button, indicator stalk and horn contact. Manual does not go out of its way to include a tech drawing of a blinker unit other than an empty box between hazard and blink contacts. The flow chart would be correct in saying replace the combo switch if fuses and bulbs ok..

philatdarwin - you now confused coz on these units there is no flasher can above the middle relays above the fuse panel - the flasher 'can' is inside combo switch in 86 model anyway.

What a stupid dumb thing to do to include it inside another part les likely to stuff up

my is a 93 and a 86 .
and it sits up in under the right site of the wheel shafe .

Different assy lines ?? be the reason for the difference?? my VIN has BROBE in it or was it BROBF