I have recently received a 1973 Buick Electra. The blinkers are not blinking when I turn them on. I have replaced all of the bulbs and the flasher assembly and they still do not blink. A weird thing I noticed is that when I remove the flasher assembly I can still turn on the blinkers. I activate the hazard lights and they both blink and when I remove the flasher assembly they stop working. I do not believe that it is a short or flasher since the hazard lights work (At least that is what I believe but I have no proof of that.) Does any one have an idea what could be wrong? I would appreciate any help.

Nevermind I think I found the problem it has a second flasher asembaly that nobody I know knew about. Any body know were I can get 8 traks for it. Oh yea the plate that covers the bottom of the windsheild is all bent I need to know the tecnical name of it so i can get a new one. can any body help me with that.(I hope you know what i am talking about.

You can try to look for 8 tracks on ebay. That is where I found them.

The part at the bottom of the windshield is the lower windshield reveal molding. If I understand correctly, this is the plate the windshield wipers travel across as they go to the fully depressed condition. The GM part number is 9826851. It was used on all 71-76 Buick LeSabres/Centurions/Electra 225s/Rivieras except for convertibles. Similar full size cars in the Oldsmobile/Pontiac/Chevrolet lines used it too. Cadillacs appears to have used it as well, though their part numbers are a little bit different.

Thank you TODD. do you know where i can find the part.

The molding is a discontinued part at GM from my understanding. So many different car makes and years used it that you may be able to find one by having a dealer check stock on non-current items. It was an expensive part as far as trim goes when it was still available.

If I were looking, I would count on finding a good one in a salvage yard. There should still be a good supply of donor vehicles around.

Here is something of interest to me:

"Nevermind I think I found the problem it has a second flasher asembaly that nobody I know knew about."

I have a Centurion, and the hazards work fine, all bright and nicely ticking. But the indicators only work occasionally, and they're sometimes bright and ticking, sometimes very faint and only goes on two or three times without the ticking noise, and then turns off. Most times nothing happens, you pull the indicator arm, and there's nothing. I changed the flasher, I tried to clean the contact areas for the indicator arm, under the steering wheel. But the problem remains; so if there's something you know about this, please let me know, cause it's really bugging me.

Cheers

Kimson

Because you quoted me does that mean that you do not know where the second flasher unit is. if that is the case i would cheek behind the dash board in front of the drivers seat thats were it is on my electra. the one on the fuse box is for the hazard lights. If that wasent your problem and I mis understood you then i have no idea. i know when I first pulled the bad flasher unit out and put it back in the dash board light for the right turn single only turn on if i turned on my lights ( they still would not blink because the unit was bad. Also i dont remeber if that acturly happend with the blinkers them self.) Th