Gene, see http://www.ttalk.info/Tech/WarningLamps.htm for a look at how
the lamp sockets are retained. They are inserted through the front of
the instrument panel and are retained via a spring, collar and clip from
behind the panel.
Bud Krueger
http://www.ttalk.info/
Gene Fodor wrote:
>Listers ... an update ... after checking the suggestions from Lew Palmer and
>looking at Bud's great "T" site (including a refresher on Ohm's Law), the
>problem appears to boil down to the socket. The voltages or lack thereof at
>the regulator is just at Lew suggested.
>
>As I don't know what the socket assy. should look like, what I found in
>opening it up was a center pin seated on a spring that would touch the bulb's
>center pin, around the inside of the socket there is what looks like a large
>spring that, when the bulb is pushed in place, must surround the bayonet case
>of the bulb. Then there is the hard metal case outside the spring with a slit,
>that looks to be a keyway in it. However, the bulb is a bayonet base the
>keyway is too far from it to be attached to.
>
>So, if indeed the holder is the problem, how do you get it out of the panel?
>Once the cover and lens are removed, there is a black material that doesn't
>give to allow the sock assy. to be moved in or out. My guess is that black
>material is a proctors for the panel and comes off and the socket assy. is
>pushed in.
>
>Any additional suggestions?
>
>Thanks for all you help.
>
>Cheers
>Gene
>Eliot, '53 MGTD
>Vermont
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