Traveling through Southern Idaho? Feel free to stop at
my house for a rest break. I am 5 minutes off the
Interstate and have a fenced yard. Then only 10 hours
to Seattle area.
Don Miller
68 turbo V-6
70 2000
76 Porsche 911 S For Sale
Meridian, ID
--- Ken Pearce <Ken_Pearce@CACinc.com> wrote:
> Question: What inspections (emissions, safety) does
> Washington State
> require for a '68-2000 to be registered?
>
> I am bringing the roadster from Kansas (actually
> from Vancouver BC, but
> I never registered it here) with a
> current Kansas registration. Also, anyone familiar
> with Bellingham WA,
> I'm looking for a storage garage for
> the roadster and living accomodations for me and my
> well-behaved dog.
> I'll be working at WWU starting
> April 2nd.
>
> In roadster news, I had a nagging electrical problem
> that I decided to
> tackle yesterday. Since I bought the
> car back in '98, the turn signals haven't worked.
> The driver's side
> worked briefly but then it too gave out. I started
> out by replacing the flasher unit and the in-line
> fuse going to it.
> This brought back my driver's side signals, but
> not the passenger side. I was also replacing both
> my tach and speedo as
> well, this turned out to help me
> diagnose the turn-signal problem. Anyone who has
> replaced the tach and
> speedo with steering column in place
> deserves some kind of award or medal, at least a
> t-shirt or something!
> My key to success was my pen-light
> flashlight that you wear like eyeglasses which are
> hands free and shine
> on whatever you look at...
>
> As I was under the dash, I found a broken wire in
> the plug that goes to
> the turn-signal switch, re-attaching this
> wire fixed my passenger side signals. Woo Hoo! The
> roadster Gods have
> smiled upon me! I also found that
> the PO had installed the indicator and illuminating
> lamps in the tach,
> incorrectly. This explained why my passenger
> indicator was lit any time I turned on my running
> lights. Lastly, I
> discovered that the in-line fuse going to the
> flasher
> unit blows quickly and violently if the outside of
> the flasher unit
> touches a ground! Lots of electrical tape around
> the
> outside of the flasher fixed that (fingers crossed
> pending any future
> wiring harness fires!)
>
> I then took it out for a drive after laboring for 6
> hours. She still
> runs great and I almost forgot how to drive with
> working turn-signals and brake lights, and tach, and
> speedo...
>
> Cheers!
>
> Ken Pearce, 68-2000
> Vancouver BC, (Bellingham WA after 4/2/01)
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