I have a used rheostat for a 66 B (worked when removed, just a little
wobbly; discovered new one was exactly the same). Offhand I don't know if it
is the same. From your description I doubt it -- a PCB sounds pretty
advanced for 1966.
on 9/13/02 6:06 AM, proot@attbi.com at proot@attbi.com wrote:
> In the 5 minutes I had between dinner and my sons
> soccer game (we were late :-), I popped open the
> rheostat. Inside is a little printed circuit board
> with solder leads trailing all around and one of them
> had pulled away and folded over causing the connector
> to have nothing to connect to.
>
> There's also a burn mark from the burning wire incident.
>
> I pulled the dash Wednesday night. I'm not sure how
> I'm going to get it back in. I'm thinking that pulling
> the tach and speedo might make it easier to get back in.
> It took me 1 1/2 hours. Fortunately, the only nut/bolt
> that gave me any trouble was the one right above the
> glove box, so I could actually see what I was working on.
> The bolt (I think) was stripped a bit, so the nut just
> spun. I grabbed it will a channel lock pliers and pulled
> and turned, that got it started again and the rachet got
> it the rest of the way.
>
> The wires don't look too bad. I'm going to unwrap the
> whole dash sub-loom to be sure, though.
>
>
> So, two questions.
> 1) Anybody with a parts car got a rheostat they'd part
> with? Monte? Steve Shoyer? The new ones are pretty well
> cost prohibitive to me, especially considering what it
> does.
>
> 2) Alternatively, since my rheostat is hidden under the
> dash, since the choke cable goes where the rheostat was,
> a la a DPO (actually, it's a good place for it). Is there
> any reason, I couldn't get a generic rheostat from a parts
> store and use it.
>
> 3) Otherwise (ok, it turned into 3 questions), could I
> just put an inline fuse in the dash lights circuit between
> the red/green and red/wire?
>
> Thanks,
> Paul.
>
> --
> Paul Root
> '77B
> proot@attbi.com
>
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