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vwfye
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Finally... everything worked... for 10 minutes. But at least the car runs and drives again. But again no right side signal lights.
The 10 minutes they worked were awesome!
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vwfye
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| Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2020 10:47 am Post subject: Re: Black is the new black... or, building my Tie Fighter. |
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It must be in the steering column.
My smoke and no start under the dash was a melted signal relay caused by my new to me right front turn signal housing base. Well, not exactly that... I installed said signal base with bulb that was in it. Ompketely my fault for not inspecting it first. The bulb that was in it was a single element and was causing a direct short! It makes me wonder if that is why the donor ended up in the parts yard. I didnt even think to look at the bulb that was in the housing since it was clean and i could see an element. Doh! Dual element should be in there.
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Bobnotch
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| Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2020 11:10 am Post subject: Re: Black is the new black... or, building my Tie Fighter. |
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It must be in the steering column.
My smoke and no start under the dash was a melted signal relay caused by my new to me right front turn signal housing base. Well, not exactly that... I installed said signal base with bulb that was in it. Ompketely my fault for not inspecting it first. The bulb that was in it was a single element and was causing a direct short! It makes me wonder if that is why the donor ended up in the parts yard. I didnt even think to look at the bulb that was in the housing since it was clean and i could see an element. Doh! Dual element should be in there. |
OK, so Jim was right about the wrong bulb up front. Sounds like you might need to replace the switch now that you've let out all of the magic smoke. 
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vwfye
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| Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2020 11:26 am Post subject: Re: Black is the new black... or, building my Tie Fighter. |
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We replaced the melted relay and everything worked. Then it stopped on just the right side only, again. If the issue is in the column, i will just have to live with it.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2020 6:18 pm Post subject: Re: Black is the new black... or, building my Tie Fighter. |
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| We replaced the melted relay and everything worked. Then it stopped on just the right side only, again. If the issue is in the column, i will just have to live with it. |
If you smoked the relay your are taking about the flasher , usually a fuse blows and if not it's either wired wrong and not fused , if so I would look at the contacts in the fuse box the relay plugs into. What year is this 71. It's either fuse 8 or 10. |
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vwfye
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| Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:55 pm Post subject: Re: Black is the new black... or, building my Tie Fighter. |
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Finally got a break in the weather, so back after the electrical gremilns in the car today.
Should be drivong it again this afternoon. Woot!
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vwfye
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| Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2020 2:04 pm Post subject: Re: Black is the new black... or, building my Tie Fighter. |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2020 2:16 pm Post subject: Re: Black is the new black... or, building my Tie Fighter. |
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wish we could thumbs up posts... nice picture
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| Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2020 4:50 pm Post subject: Re: Black is the new black... or, building my Tie Fighter. |
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vwfye
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| Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2020 7:33 pm Post subject: Re: Black is the new black... or, building my Tie Fighter. |
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Thanks guys. That was at work today. Had the lot to myself
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