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 Post subject: Phantom Clicking
PostPosted: Thu Aug 07, 2025 9:32 pm 
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On the '63 Dart, I'm hearing phantom, slower-than-normal turn-signal blinker "ticking" going on when the signals are not engaged. No dash indicator lights are illuminating, and the signals work as they should when engaged, but the slow ticking returns once they're disengaged.

Turning the ignition key to the "On" or "Accessory" position will not cause this slow ticking to commence: it only seems to happen when the engine is running. Today, I heard the blinker sound when I turned the ignition OFF, more than once.

Any idea what might be going on?


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 Post subject: Re: Phantom Clicking
PostPosted: Fri Aug 08, 2025 4:15 am 
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Unplug turn signal flasher to verify if that is the noise?

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 Post subject: Re: Phantom Clicking
PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2025 1:22 am 
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It's definitely the flasher. Thermal type FL #552. Perhaps it's malfunctioning, maybe time to replace it? I wonder if others have had success with the electronic flasher, type EFL 552?


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 Post subject: Re: Phantom Clicking
PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2025 3:03 am 
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When it is doing the slow clicking, do any of the outside lights blink?
Does the "clicking occur whith the ign switch in the off position? There should be no power to the flasher, when ign switch is off.

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 Post subject: Re: Phantom Clicking
PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2025 11:24 am 
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The upgrade flasher you want is this one (2-prong like original; connect its ground wire conveniently). This will operate the brighter bulbs at the correct flash rate, and it has much lower internal resistance than the original type, for brighter turn signals.

But if your turn signal flasher is somehow activating, that's not coming from the flasher itself; something's got to be activating it — a fault in the wiring, though I can't imagine what it would be.

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 Post subject: Re: Phantom Clicking
PostPosted: Sat Aug 09, 2025 12:18 pm 
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If it is the flasser "clicking" with the key off, it could be a short in the steering columm, or the dir swith connector at the base of the columm. If I remember correctly, the horn wire is hot at all times. That could feed to the flasher, but I need to look at the wiring diagram to be sure.

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 Post subject: Re: Phantom Clicking
PostPosted: Mon Aug 11, 2025 1:19 pm 
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When it is doing the slow clicking, do any of the outside lights blink?
Does the "clicking occur whith the ign switch in the off position? There should be no power to the flasher, when ign switch is off.
No outside lights blink. What I meant, when I commented I heard the blink when I turned the ignition OFF, is that as I turned the ignition switch off, I heard that slow "blink" sound momentarily, not when the ignition switch was actually fully OFF. Just as I turned it off.


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 Post subject: Re: Phantom Clicking
PostPosted: Mon Aug 11, 2025 1:22 pm 
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If it is the flasser "clicking" with the key off, it could be a short in the steering columm, or the dir swith connector at the base of the columm. If I remember correctly, the horn wire is hot at all times. That could feed to the flasher, but I need to look at the wiring diagram to be sure.
Sorry, clarified I didn't mean it was clicking with the ignition switch OFF, just as I turned it off.

UPDATE: got a new EFL552 flasher and tried that. It also slow ticked when the ignition was in the ON position as well (without the turn signal switch engaged). Pretty weird. Had another older thermal type 552, tried that, it's not 'ticking', I guess when in doubt, keep trying different blinker modules :?


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