Spent my first night of ownership in a battle against the Prince of
Darkness. Narrowed the headlights not lighting problem down to the
column mounted dimmer switch. If I short the hot lead to one of the two
blue wires with a screwdriver I can get the headlights to come on so
it's not the dash mounted switch. A previous fix is evident in that the
column switch has the wires soldered onto it, not crimped so I'm gonna
remove it tonight and clean it up and hopefully fix it.
My question is that I already have a replacement switch if my fix
doesn't work but what kind of grief am I looking at to remove the dash
to get access to the wiring to fit the replacement? Or should I
consider just cutting the wires on the replacement and soldering it onto
the existing wires instead? Bear in mind I'm 90% sure I'll need to
remove the dash to replace a seized blower motor, unless someone out
there knows any easy route to fixing that.
And one last thing, after only two hours of fiddling, I managed to kill
the battery. In a previous post I asked about the little red IGN light
on the tach and the concensous was the alt is in need of
repair/replacing. To review the symptoms, the light goes out when the
car is above 1500rpm (and the headlights become brighter) but comes back
on when it drops to idle. I don't want to have to keep the engine at
2000rpm while I work on it to keep the battery charged. If I can't find
a replacement easily, what do I need to buy/replace/refurbish/repair to
"rebuild" and alt?
Rob Christopher
74.5 TR6 CF28217UO (thanks to Trevor for correcting the year)
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