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Re: Dim Pkg Lights

To: PVANDAL@aol.com, mgs@autox.team.net, triumphs@autox.team.net, healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Dim Pkg Lights
From: johnhaynes@som-uky.campus.mci.net (John Haynes)
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 21:36:19 -0400 (EDT)
At 08:07 AM 10/12/96 -0400, PVANDAL@aol.com wrote:
>The car is a '62 AH 3000, it underwent a 5 yr ground up restoration including
>a new wiring harness, bulb sockets, bulbs, with all areas highly detailed,
>etc.  ALL grounds passed a continuity test.  Two years ago when the wiring
>was completed, all circuits worked fine. The previous post related to the
>brake lights resulted in a broken wire at the switch, however a gremlin still
>exists as follows:
>     1.) The directional signals work fine when the parking or headlights are
>OFF.
>     2.) When the parking lights are turned on the right front and left rear
>are dim,  
>          while the left front and right rear appear excessively bright.
>     3.) With the parking lights turned on, only the right front and left
>rear (the dim 
>          lights) operate with directional functions.
>Some thoughts I have are as follows:
>      1.) Faulty headlight switch
>      2.) Faulty flasher unit
>      3.) Faulty flasher relay (that expensive unit with 9 wires attached
>located in a 
>           nearly inaccessable spot)
>Again thanks in advance..................
>
       It sounds like a bad ground to me. Take all the bulbs out and then do
a continuity test on the ground wire to the battery post.
   Sam Haynes 59 TR3 Original Owner>


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