I never go anywhere without my cell phone. In fact, I found the cigarette
recharge adapter cheap yesterday, so Nigel got a little belated
Easter/Passover present.
But, thanks for reminding me-there aren't any hazard lights on Nigel-I'll
have to ask Dave about that when we get together on the morrow. ( Although
with the adapter plugged in and the radio on, do we really want to push his
little {electrical} system?<g>)
Laura G. and Nigel
-----Original Message-----
From: David Gates <dgates@lava.net>
To: spitfires@autox.team.net <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 11:10 PM
Subject: When it rains it pours
>
>Well, only two days of driving after the clutch ordeal and the water pump
>springs a leak. The small drain hole at the bottom of the pully leaked so
>much I had to keep adding water to the rad. So, I pulled the water pump
>off my parts car and I'm back in business.
>
>Just hours after that my wife calls me on the cell phone (a Spitfire
>required safety item) to report that she is stuck on the side of the
>freeway out of gas. The guage had been reading empty since it was back on
>the road and I have not had time to fix it yet. She thought she had more
>gas than she did. So, I fired up the TSV and delivered her some gas. Upon
>finding her on the freeway she said that the hazards were not working and
>neither were the blinkers. What else could go wrong, the tires fall off?
>
>Later when we got the car home I checked the hazards and blinker problem.
>When I first got this car the hazards worked fine, but the red hazard light
>on the dash did not blink, but the green blinker light did (with the
>hazards in use). I thought the hazard light was just burned out and never
>gave it a second thought. When I started troubleshooting this problem I
>found that only the hazard light should blink and not the green blinker
>light. I never realized that the hazard and blinker circuits are so
>closely related. In fact it all seems to come together at the hazard
>switch. I ended up removing the hazard switch and it ohmed out bad. I
>took it apart and cleaned all the contacts very well and wala, the hazards
>AND the blinkers work fine now. Now when I turn on the hazard lights, only
>the red hazard light on the dash blinks and not the green blinker light.
>This was my first realization that it never worked right from the
beginning.
>
>My point to all this is if you have problems in this area I would highly
>suspect this seemingly unimportant switch. It is critical to the operation
>of both the hazards and the blinkers. And it is very easy to disassemble
>the switch (once you get it out of the dash) and clean the contacts inside.
> There is no need to get a new one unless it is in really bad shape.
>
>Sorry for the book, just trying to help out in advance if I can, and share
>in my frustration lately. Current status of the Spit, my wife is out
>driving it right this minute, with cell phone in hand.
>
>David Gates
>
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