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I love spending time with old school craftspeople and fixers. Always a
great way to learn stuff...
Ken
On 3/3/2025 10:53 AM, Joe Brown wrote:
> 1. Wiper would occasionally turn on by itself or not turn off after
> being turned on. This was only happening during the one rainy day I
> had it out. I have not been able to reproduce the problem in my
> garage. I took the switch apart and cleaned the internals with
> Deoxit. I also cleaned all of the connections. I then dropped the
> wiper motor and opened up the gearbox and found some grease on the
> stop switch contact. I cleaned all of that up and put it back
> together. D###it, I got the stop switch thing 180 degrees out of
> position and the wipers are trying to part on the wrong side. Took it
> apart again and fixed that.
> So now I'll wait and see if the problem ever comes back. I hate
> intermittent problems.
>
> While I was troubleshooting the wiper issue I thought I would check
> into some other issues I was having under the dash. I don't fit under
> the dash very well so I took out the radio, the seats and the
> shifter. My dash lights weren't working, so I dug around until I
> found a wire disconnected. I also found that one of the lights wasn't
> even plugged into the back of a gauge. Then I noticed that I must
> have ripped out a wire for the cigar lighter when I was taking out the
> radio. Fixed that. One thing after another.
>
> 2. Heater core leak. I live near a small town and had to search
> around to find somebody that works on radiators. After trying a
> couple of places I was directed to an old guy about 30 miles away that
> still does this kind of work. He's an interesting old guy that likes
> to talk. I must have been there an hour when I was dropping off the
> core. I told him I could buy a new one for about $200 and he started
> talking about how my old one was constructed and how he didn't think
> anybody could build something like today for only $200. Anyway, he
> just called and told me to come pick it up.
>
> Have Fun,
> Joe Brown
>
>
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