Where is the turn signal flasher on a 1996 Ford Ranger the manual says under the instrument panel to the right of the steering column you have looked high and low and don't see it?

Answer 1

The manual says it's to the right of the steering column, but ours was to the left while sitting in the driver seat. Our flasher is approximately 1"x"1x2" and is blue with 5 fat male prongs and one skinny male prong. We already had taken off the plastic shield below the steering column which are both star or nut drivers, and we had already taken off the hood release (two small bolts), then we had also already taken off the metal shield cover under the plastic shield, maybe 6 bolts we took off with a nut driver in a battery drill. You can see in plain sight the blue flasher. First you have to slip it off of the plastic part that is plugged into the metal frame. Do not rip it off the frame, it slides off. Then you have to release the plastic tab to slide the flasher off it's base. That's it for removal. Plug in the new part and re-assemble. I wonder if we could have changed this part without dismantling the underdash. It wasn't hard to do, but maybe it can be done with a mirror. Our new flasher did not have the skinny prong, and I guess it wasn't needed. Part number 5L5z-13350-AA. After all of this, the turn signals still did not work. Our short is in the steering column. We wiggled the blinker arm around to get it out of whatever bad track it was in, and the blinkers work with the old flasher installed.