dave,
you do not need to get to the flasher to put on a load equalizer, you can get at all of the turn signal wires under the seat. under the ecu. there is a white connector with 5 wires, (brown, green, yellow, blue, black (all with green stripes)) you need to hook your equalizer to the green and brown wires (these are the turn signals) and a ground. there are other ones there too, these were just the easiest ones for me to use.
otoh, if you are going to change your flasher, you just need to start digging straight down on the right side under the seat, a real pita, and if you do change the flasher, you will loose the auto cancelling stuff. an equalizer is a better solution.