Your idea sounds like what I would do...
Since you just got the car, here is some advice: You will find many
4-way bullet connectors in the wiring (they look like a piece of rubber
with 3 or 4 wires going into it, two at each end). These often fail.
The metal inside seems to simply disintegrate. Order a dozen or so.
They are cheap. Any time you have a flaky light or whatever, look for
bad bullet connectors in the circuit. I have already replaced 6 in my
car, which has had no other problems in its wiring.
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
>- - Any suggestions for tightening up the loose ground connections in my
>reverse light's bulb holders? The connection between the tabbed metal ring
>that holds the bulb holder into the reflector and the copper/brass tab that
>runs down the side of the socket to the bulb shell seems to have loosened
>up, resulting in an intermittent ground (I need the lights reliable enough
>to get through inspection!). TRF and Moss don't seem to have new bulb
>holders. Is there any good way to repair what I've got? I thought about
>wrapping a stranded wire around one of the "holddown" tabs, so the wire
>would be forced against the reflector housing when the bulb was installed,
>and stuffing it down the inside of the socket to make contact with the bulb
>shell.
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