First off i cant take complete credit for this, it is on a different forum but it took me awhile to find so I made my own as well. The purpose of this is to slow down the flash rate so sequential lights are more noticeable. This isn't that hard and is much cheaper, $1.60 after tax, than the $30 + modified relays that other places sell.
You'll need a few things to do this:
1 uf capacitor from radio shack, this will get you about 62 flashes per minute
OR 4.7 uf capacitor, this will drop flashes down to about 55 flashes per minute, was a little to slow for my taste
soldering iron
solder
small screw driver
needle nose pliers
Capacitor
I used part number 272-996 from radio shack
The 4.7 uf capacitor is in the same drawer if you choose to go that route
Flasher relay
Located under the driver side dash in a yellow case attached to the fuse panel
Once out you need to get the relay out of the yellow casing, i used a small flat blade screwdriver separating on the alignment pegs and using a needle nose vice grip pliers to pull up. You can see along the one side where i cracked it, don't to that.
Once out the relay should look something like this.
Now you're going to want to take the capacitor you bought and snip the leads a little over half off and bend the ends around forming a little "U".
These "U"s are going to get latched around each side of the 3.3 uF capacitor already on the relay and get soldered creating a 4.3 uF capacitor.
If you wanted an even slower flash rate with the 4.7 uF capacitor then you would cut off the 3.3 uF and solder in just the 4.7 uF capacitor.
Now you can plug the relay back in the car without the yellow cover to test that everything works as it should. Make sure the car is running or you won't get proper voltage and strange things will happen. If everything seems to be working as it should you can throw the yellow cover back on and install back on the clip attached to the fuse block.
Here is a before video showing how the last flasher is not very noticeable with the stock flasher.
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This shows what it should look like after the modification, notice the last bulb fully lighting up. With the 4.7 uF flasher the light has more of a pause and it just seemed weird to me so i went this route.
[youtube_browser]cWGVcejI-5s[/youtube_browser]
Now go use the $30 you saved to grab a beer :beer:
You'll need a few things to do this:
1 uf capacitor from radio shack, this will get you about 62 flashes per minute
OR 4.7 uf capacitor, this will drop flashes down to about 55 flashes per minute, was a little to slow for my taste
soldering iron
solder
small screw driver
needle nose pliers
Capacitor
I used part number 272-996 from radio shack
The 4.7 uf capacitor is in the same drawer if you choose to go that route
Flasher relay
Located under the driver side dash in a yellow case attached to the fuse panel
Once out you need to get the relay out of the yellow casing, i used a small flat blade screwdriver separating on the alignment pegs and using a needle nose vice grip pliers to pull up. You can see along the one side where i cracked it, don't to that.
Once out the relay should look something like this.
Now you're going to want to take the capacitor you bought and snip the leads a little over half off and bend the ends around forming a little "U".
These "U"s are going to get latched around each side of the 3.3 uF capacitor already on the relay and get soldered creating a 4.3 uF capacitor.
If you wanted an even slower flash rate with the 4.7 uF capacitor then you would cut off the 3.3 uF and solder in just the 4.7 uF capacitor.
Now you can plug the relay back in the car without the yellow cover to test that everything works as it should. Make sure the car is running or you won't get proper voltage and strange things will happen. If everything seems to be working as it should you can throw the yellow cover back on and install back on the clip attached to the fuse block.
Here is a before video showing how the last flasher is not very noticeable with the stock flasher.
[youtube_browser]xq-E0J5p01k[/youtube_browser]
This shows what it should look like after the modification, notice the last bulb fully lighting up. With the 4.7 uF flasher the light has more of a pause and it just seemed weird to me so i went this route.
[youtube_browser]cWGVcejI-5s[/youtube_browser]
Now go use the $30 you saved to grab a beer :beer:
