I'm confused about the time line for the missing "filaments" in the horn button. Did those break off and disappear inside the steering column somewhere or were they never present? Perhaps something
On the Mountney horn button the contact with the "pencil" is made with essentially and unbundled wound wire, flayed out so that at least one hits the pencil. These were very weal and broke right off,
To all, especially the electrically gifted: I preface this with yet another acknowledgement that I am an electrical idiot. Laugh at the appropriate places. It goes back several months ago, but maybe
Oh, yes. You are right, of course. I did track and trace everything I could find, and replaced a number of those nasty connectors that seemed bad. That is the process that brought me to replace my f
All of your symptoms point to problems either in the cranking circuit i.e. battery post and ground connections, solenoid connections, or where the brown wires connect to the solenoid and ignition swi
Wow. I'm going through the same thing, but different circumstances... The radio would switch off and then back on when I used the turn signals so I traced out the connections and found some corrosion
Author: Charles & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins@ktc.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 09:08:59 -0600
Speaking of fuse blocks: I just got done replacing the "Lighting Switch" (that's head/park/tail/license lights) in my '69B. A DPO had cobbled in a heater switch, so I had no separate parking lights.
The radio would switch off and then back on when I used the turn signals so I traced out the connections and found some corrosion on the constant power curcuit. Now it only blinks off when I use the