[Spits] Tail and dash light Gremlins

[Doug Braun]

Are you sure it's not a bad connection at the fuse
block?  The clips that hold the fuses are very flaky
and do not hold their spring tension well.  Also
beware of this especially awful feature of the fuse
block:  Some of the clips are NOT a a single U-shaped
piece, but two separate J-shaped pieces, each of which
is connected to half of the wires of the fuse's
circuit. Thus a bad connection at a fuse can make half
of the circuit go out, while the other half is
working.

Jam your head under the dash and have a careful look
at the back of the fuse box, and you will see what I
mean.  I can't believe they could get away with
selling a car with a safety-critical part of such poor
quality...

Doug Braun
'72 Spit



--- Paul Meyer <paulfmeyer at msn.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> I have had one issue, though, that got worse.  Years
> ago, the dash and tail 
> lights would go out simultaneously.  The next day,
> they'd work.  This 
> happened 6 or 7 times in the first two years of
> ownership.