At 10:35 PM 4/22/98 -0400, you wrote:
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>Dave, ...... just Dave wrote:
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>> Frank to the rescue again !
>> Busy sorting out my dash wiring before installing my newly wrinkled dash.
>> I got all the other lights and switches working (still need a good heater
>> control) but was
>> stumped by the little mystery light. Now I hope I never see it lit !
>> Have you ever used that light for another purpose, like an oil temp warning
>> light
>> or brake pressure failure warning light (like vw) ?
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>Dave
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>I have used the warning light as a regular oil pressure warning light.
>I put in a Tee at the oil pressure gauge/block and a regular OP switch.
>I just did the same on my daughters Austin A40 (1275 )
>The first one was my wife (girlfriend at the time) 65 Sprite, she blew it up
>once (no oil)
>thought the gauge broke, never bothered to check the dip stick (dumb blondes)
>That was my first rewire the warning light so it makes itself usefull.
>My daughter is a blonde too, looks just like my wife when she was 16 so
before
>she blows the engine it now has a gauge and an idiot light.
>I don't need a light to tell me the oil is dirty!
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>If your heater switch/cable menagery is shot like most cars with that dumb
>switch, do what I do to all of my Sprites.
>Remove the cable, install a toggle switch where the cable was, it will be
>mounted sideways but unless it is dead nuts original, who cares.
>flip it on - flip it off, the cable works the air flap which I always remove
>too, air all the time.
>heat when you turn on the valve in November, just fresh air when the valve is
>off in April.
>The Bugeyes have that same dumb cable, both my Bugeyes now have a pull switch
>marked "B"
>Blower. I just happened to have 2 old Lucas pull switches from who knows what
>that had a "B" on them. It couldn't have been Bonnet since they are
electrical.
>I have seen "P" for panel lights
>F for fog lights
>H for heater
>W for wipers
>S for side (parking) lights
>H for headlights
>D for driving lights
>And an assortment of symbols.
>
>Leave it to the Brits.
>
Any good ideas on a more useful function for the panel light switch ?
I don't understand why you would want to turn the dash lights off. Do you ?
Ulix told me he made his into an emergency flasher switch.
Anybody else ?...
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