QUOTE(Shivers @ Jan 2 2022, 08:37 AM)
Resistance in a circuit can cause all sorts of weird stuff to happen. Good example is a bad ground. The power needs to flow evenly, a blown bulb, a bad ground, corroded connectors, a fatigued wire that looks good but the metal is cracking inside causing resistance. Gaads, it is hit and miss. If you had the values of everything you could use a meter, maybe someone has put that list together too. The turn signal switch works with the relay, if there is the wrong resistance in one of those paths..."There's no place like home..." Mine is a 72', every once in a while the left blinker indicator would blink once and then both would flash dimly. Blinkers were working fine. Next time I'd hit the left blinker it would be fine, and continue to be fine for a long period of time. I never did figure that one out.
@Shivers The secondary coil that drives the common connection of the tach turnsignal indicators has lost its efficiency over time and is not pulling in with turnsignal on. Thus both L and R indicators flash together.
Two basic solutions:
1) Remove the common connection of the L and R indicators and ground them. Many people just install a new relay or put in an LED-compatible EP26 relay.
2) New flasher relay.
I grounded the common connection of the L and R indicators on my '71 when both indicators flashed together.
BTW, the L and R flashing together is designed into the OEM flasher relay to alert the driver that an external bulb is burned out. Over time the secondary coil loses its efficiency and you have the situation observed on your car.