I found the access I was looking for, gents. The rubber boot over the
wiring in the trunk does NOT pull off from the inside when the light is
assembled.
There are three screws under the glass that holds the assembly in place.
Once the screws are removed, the assembly can be withdrawn and the wires
accessed.
I now have two working back-up lights.
Yay.
Best wishes,
Jeff in San Diego
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----- Original Message -----
From: wizardz <wizardz@maxinter.net>
To: <alemen@pop.ftconnect.com>; <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: Back-up lamp wiring access ?
>
> The best thing I've found for cleaning electrical light bulb sockets
> is one of those green scrubby pads twisted around a pair
> of needle nose pliers. Just a couple of quick twists and it works wonders.
> Just blow out the dust, put a dab of dielectric grease on the bulb contact
> points and pop it in. ...should be good for another 30 years. :-)
>
> .... green scrubby works great on those bullet connectors as well.
>
> Paul Tegler wizardz@toad.net http://www.teglerizer.com (new layout)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alemen@pop.ftconnect.com <alemen@pop.ftconnect.com>
> To: spitfires@autox.team.net <spitfires@autox.team.net>
> Date: Thursday, June 29, 2000 1:24 PM
> Subject: Re: Back-up lamp wiring access ?
>
>
>
> Jeff, I had the same probelm when I got my car. Most of the lights did not
work. Only 2 were bad bulbs, the rest were either the lamp contact or the
grounding holders. I cleaned then up like Dean and also since they are
springy metal, bent the ones that were not so good to the touch, so they
made a tighter fit and that cured the problem. Again this was a 1500 BTW.
>
> Alan
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Dean Dashwood Dean.Dashwood@enron.com
> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 17:02:15 +0100
> Subject: Re: Back-up lamp wiring access ?
>
>
>
>
>
> Jeff,
>
> I'm speaking from the point of view of my 1500 now, so I don't know how
> different this will be to your car. My lamps do not have a ground wire,
they
> simply ground through the lighting assembly. When I've had similar
problems in
> the past, I've usually been able to fix them by taking some coarse
sandpaper and
> rubbing down all the components that form the ground (inside of the bulb
holder,
> "legs" of the bulb holder, the area of the lighting assembly where the
bulb
> holder sits, etc.)
>
> Having said that, I did once find one that I couldn't fix this way (a rear
> indicator). I ordered a new bulb holder (I think it was from John
Kippings, but
> wouldn't swear to it) which did have connections for a ground wire. (Very
> inconvenient - I had to find another ground wire and splice it to connect
it.)
> If the bulb holders you've got have two electrical connections on them, it
could
> be that this is what you're looking at. If it seems to be a wire that's
the
> problem, you might need to cut out and replace a section of that wire.
>
> The boot that you refer to - if it's on the bult holder, then yes it does
pop
> off easily. But I suspect you're looking at something different which I
don't
> have on my car, because the thing I'm thinking of is so simple that I
shouldn't
> think you'd need to ask...
>
> Dean
> -------------
>
>
>
>
> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 18:37:12 -0700
> From: "Jeff McNeal" <jmcneal@ohms.com>
> Subject: Back-up lamp wiring access ?
>
> Hello all. One of my back-up lights has what I suspect is a loose ground,
> because I can get it to work if I wiggle the wire. I want to fix this,
but
> don't know how to access the area where the ground wire attaches. There
> seems to be a rubber boot that the wire enters which is in my way. Does
> this just pop off, or what?
>
> TIA
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jeff in San Diego
>
>
>
>
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