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Trafficator reinstallation

Michael Oritt

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I sent my trafficator/horn assembly off to Curt Arndt for refurbishing and got it back in great condition. However I am having difficulty in reinstalling it:

1. As shown in the pic I fed the wires down the stator tube and am ready to attach the trafficator assembly which is done via three #4BA flat head machine screws that go through the countersunk holes in the stator tube end plate and pick up the thin copper or brass piece which resembles a spring washer. Because of the piece's thinness there is really only one thread of engagement and whenever I attempt to push the head/tube home into its final position I invariably dislodge one of the screws from the head. Am I doing something wrong here or am I simply being ham-handed?

2. Is there a trick to getting the olive over the end of the stator tube as I cannot get it started and before I start exerting force I thought I would enquire whether it needs to be heated, etc. Getting the old one off was not easy and i would up having to cut it with a dremel tool. It is possible that I have slightly buggered the end of the stator tube and wonder if perhaps I need to dress the end, chamfering it a bit?

Any help will be appreciated--weather is beginning to cool off and I would like to get the car back on the road.
 

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I got everything together this morning.

I was under the mistaken impression that the three flathead screws shown in the earlier photo should stay in place and that three additional screws should pass through the plate on the end of the stator tube and somehow thread into the holes in the copper ring. (Those holes and the three smaller holes on the plate were apparently designed to slip over locator pins which were present on some units, though not mine.). In any case after a lot of good and patient advice from folks over on the autox and Experience sites I finally saw the error of my ways, removed the three screws and passed them through the countersunk holes on the plate and into the trafficator.

Despite varying opinions as to whether or not the olive should be split to allow for installation I was finally able to get it started onto the stator tube and by using the nut I drove it home. I'll finish lubing and wiring tomorrow hopefully.
 
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