help needed! relays and flasher unit board.

[joel h]

Hi all,
after many years of what i can only describe as a slow home restoration (21 years and ongoing) i have got a few winter projects that i have back at my home garage, one of these being wiring and my first obstacle is the relay board. i have the three big lucas relays they have all the wires going to them o.k. then i have what looks like a substitute flasher unit fitted that has a green with dark brown tracer and a green with light brown tracer wire going to it.thats all i have then there is a black moulded plug that has space for three terminals to go to it but has only two wires going to it, one solid purple and one green with pink tracer that has nothing plugged into it. then one single wire purple with slate tracer again nothing attached and thats it. looking at catalogues i should have a window circuit breaker two terminals and a hazard flasher unit that looks to have three terminals! i dont seem to have enough wires, its a mk1 72. thanks in advance for any help . joel.

[BartonStag]

relay plate

Hi Joe, i've just replaced the wiring looms and relay plate you refer to on my mk1. My new plate is wired the same as yours although the one i removed was slightly different. The black base you mention is, i think, for a hazard warning relay (not fitted to my car) or possibly not as standard equipment on the mk1? but the two wires going to it are identical in mine. The other two "spares" don't do anything, i wonder if they are used in connection with the optional in - line fuses? I did manage to source an original flasher relay from ebay, i could send you the suppliers name and part number etc if you want to get one, although you would need an original metal mtg brkt for it. I think i've still got the one from the removed relay plate if you're stuck tho it's a bit rusty. Finally - everything on my car works so you're really not far away as far as the plate is concerned.
Hope this lot helps
Cheers
Gord

[joel h]

thanks Gord, when i get around to it i will put it back as is and go from there then. thanks for tour time and reply.
Joel.