truck won't stop blinking - quick reply would be great

[calebsg]

I was driving my '99 Disco Series 1 home tonight along a rural gravel road and hit a frost boil pretty hard at 45 mph and it made the flashers (all of them) turn on. The hazard switch would not turn them on or off and the turn signal lever had no effect either. They were still blinking after I parked and turned the truck off. I popped the fuse out from the box under the hood so that the lights aren't flashing but whatever is messed up is still clicking. I traced it to behind the glove box. Seems to be coming from a green box on the right hand side near the factory amp.

Can anyone tell me what is clicking and how to stop it?

THanks
Caleb

 

[DiscoTim]

All D1s when they take it hard in the ass end experience this.
"Stage 1" is the ongoing joke.
You stopped, killed the engine and they were still blinking, right?
But you didn't restart and instead pulled the fuse.
Go put the fuse back in... you're good to go.
Restart next time... Unless you're miles from blacktop.. Im superstitious about never turning off my truck on the trail when its runnin' good and I let them blink.

 

[calebsg]

That was the ticket!

I didn't realize D1's had this feature -- D2 owners must really be at a disadvantage not having something to signal them that they hit a bump too hard.

What's Stage 2? :ack:

Thanks Tim,
Caleb

 

[DiscoTim]

Yeahha been there, done that!!
This feature is great on night rides...Blinky lights throughout the woods to follow.

 

[DiscoTim]

And gotta love 10 minute tech on Dweb.

 

[mgreenspan]

Yeah. I love it when this happens. I trust my rover though and turn it off and cycle to get them off then restart. The blinking bothers me... especially when guys at the end of the line make fun of me over the radio

 

[jrsimpson]

So is there an inertia switch somewhere that triggers this response? Seems like a "feature" that might be worth disabling.

 

[ChrismonDA]

So is there an inertia switch somewhere that triggers this response? Seems like a "feature" that might be worth disabling.

Not a good idea. Considering the inertia switch also controls your fuel system.

 

[jec]

No, there are two different and separate inertia switches. The fuel shutoff is on the firewall under the hood. The one that activates the flashers in a crash (the reason for its existence) or over a bump is in the alarm ECU under the passenger side of the dash. My niece activates the latter by sitting in the passenger seat and kicking the dash. So you probably still could not disable it without losing the alarm function (just speculation on my part).
John

 

[edthediscoman]

LMAO, I thought it was just mine that was funny, last time out mine did that too, after bottoming out BADLY. I shut down and restarted...like windows, and all was fine.
Things that make you go "mmmmm?"

 

[XScoutguy]

I'll bet this is in the glove box manual that the PO kept:banghead: Thanks for this thread-blinking lights piss me off I may have to drive this damn thing harder than I do to get that to happen I thought I was rougher than a cob on her-mebbe not:drool:

 

[vray]

Hehe, this happened to me a few times, i thought it was something shorting out. Good to know it is a feature.

 

[az_max]

Hehe, this happened to me a few times, i thought it was something shorting out. Good to know it is a feature.

eh, like they say in the programming world... " a Feature is just a Bug with Seniority"

 

[Ray Yates]

You can temporarily disable this "feature" by pulling the 30 amp fuse at position 4 in the engine compartment fuse block. This same circuit supplies power to the (separate) blinker relay in the alarm ECU box. The downside of doing this is that your horn goes with it. The sensitivity of the inertia switch seems to vary from vehicle to vehicle. Supposedly, the alarm ECU is programmable, but apparently not in such a way that will kill the blinkers when the inertia switch trips. In principle, you could install a switch in the circuit to cut power to the ECU relay, but the splice for the horn / ECU circuit is buried way up under the dash in a really inaccessible spot. My own '98 is fairly immune to this problem, except on extended sections of washboard, where the fuse generally gets taken out about the second time the blinkers go off...