From jbbrown1980 at gmail.com Mon Mar 3 10:53:47 2025 From: jbbrown1980 at gmail.com (Joe Brown) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 11:53:47 -0600 Subject: [Tigers] Update on Heater Core and Wiper Issues Message-ID: 1. Wiper would occasionally turn on by itself or not turn off after being turned on. This was only happening during the one rainy day I had it out. I have not been able to reproduce the problem in my garage. I took the switch apart and cleaned the internals with Deoxit. I also cleaned all of the connections. I then dropped the wiper motor and opened up the gearbox and found some grease on the stop switch contact. I cleaned all of that up and put it back together. D###it, I got the stop switch thing 180 degrees out of position and the wipers are trying to part on the wrong side. Took it apart again and fixed that. So now I'll wait and see if the problem ever comes back. I hate intermittent problems. While I was troubleshooting the wiper issue I thought I would check into some other issues I was having under the dash. I don't fit under the dash very well so I took out the radio, the seats and the shifter. My dash lights weren't working, so I dug around until I found a wire disconnected. I also found that one of the lights wasn't even plugged into the back of a gauge. Then I noticed that I must have ripped out a wire for the cigar lighter when I was taking out the radio. Fixed that. One thing after another. 2. Heater core leak. I live near a small town and had to search around to find somebody that works on radiators. After trying a couple of places I was directed to an old guy about 30 miles away that still does this kind of work. He's an interesting old guy that likes to talk. I must have been there an hour when I was dropping off the core. I told him I could buy a new one for about $200 and he started talking about how my old one was constructed and how he didn't think anybody could build something like today for only $200. Anyway, he just called and told me to come pick it up. Have Fun, Joe Brown -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ktisdale at ix.netcom.com Mon Mar 3 14:37:48 2025 From: ktisdale at ix.netcom.com (Ken Tisdale) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 14:37:48 -0700 Subject: [Tigers] Update on Heater Core and Wiper Issues In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <33d3c419-b65b-4939-90bd-c31ed0a987eb@ix.netcom.com> I love spending time with old school craftspeople and fixers. Always a great way to learn stuff... Ken On 3/3/2025 10:53 AM, Joe Brown wrote: > 1. Wiper would occasionally turn on by itself or not turn off after > being turned on.? This was only happening during the one rainy day I > had it out.? I have not been able to reproduce the problem in my > garage.? I took the switch apart and cleaned the internals with > Deoxit.? I also cleaned all of the connections.? I then dropped the > wiper motor and opened up the gearbox?and found some grease on the > stop switch contact.? I cleaned all of that up and put it back > together.? D###it, I got the stop switch thing 180 degrees out of > position and the wipers are trying to part on the wrong side.? Took it > apart again and fixed that. > So now I'll wait and see if the problem ever comes back.? I hate > intermittent problems. > > While I was troubleshooting the wiper issue I thought I would check > into some other issues I was having under the dash.? I don't fit under > the dash very well so I took out the radio, the seats and the > shifter.? My dash lights weren't working, so I dug around until I > found a wire disconnected.? I also found that one of the lights wasn't > even plugged into the back of a gauge.? Then I noticed that I must > have ripped out a wire for the cigar lighter when I was taking out the > radio. Fixed that.? One thing after another. > > 2.? Heater core leak.? I live near a small town and had to search > around to find somebody that works on radiators.? After trying a > couple of places I was directed to an old guy about 30 miles away that > still does this kind of work.? He's an interesting old guy that likes > to talk.? I must have been there an hour when I was dropping off the > core.? I told him I could buy a new one for about $200 and he started > talking about how my old one was constructed and how he didn't think > anybody could build something like today for only $200. Anyway,? he > just called and told me to come pick it up. > > Have Fun, > Joe Brown > > > _______________________________________________ > > tigers at autox.team.net > > Donate: http://www.team.net/donate.html > Archive: http://www.team.net/pipermail/tigers http://autox.team.net/archive > > Unsubscribe: http://autox.team.net/mailman/options/tigers/ktisdale at ix.netcom.com > > -- Ken Tisdale 303-807-5488 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ktisdale.vcf Type: text/vcard Size: 4 bytes Desc: not available URL: