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hondo402000

hondo402000

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well I am on my way to making up my new old bulb holders, I have 2 finished, one is the alternator warning lamp and the second is the Hazard warning lamp.

And thanks to Erik at Hermajestys auto shop in RI, he found some original bulb holders from old harnesses and is sending me 5 more. Also a forum member in AZ is sending me some too, so with both I should wind up with all the correct wiring colors. I can then make pigtails, using the correct color wire and then crimp the replacements in place, and then use heat shrink tubing over the crimp and I will retape the harness. I also purchased a rebuild alternator, the bosch unit, I think part of my problem was an alternator issue too

Hondo
 

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"I love it when a plan comes together"

stolen from the "A Team"
 
All the bulb sockets have their pigtails made up. Crimped and soldered, next is to cut the old ones, crimp in the new ones, solder them and heat shrink to cover then retape the new alternator wire to the alternator, check for any other wires that might have melted the insulation, hopefully done this weekend, When it warms up
 

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Keith - Ran all my bulb light wire to this.A little late for you prolly. But it kind of keeps all the wires separated

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yes its too late for that but thats not the issue now, I did get all the bulb sockets replaced, the wiring harness tape off, pulled out the burned Brown Yellow wire from the IGN warning lamp. ran the new wire and taped up the harness from the alternator to the fire wall. now the questions. I am a tad bid cofusesed as to which sockets get which bulbs, the two red warning lamps, the one on the left is suppose to be the hazard warning lamp and the one on the right is the brake failure warning lamp and the third in question is the low oil pressure lamp. I was under the impression that the 2 red warning lamps were suppose to glow dimly when the Ign is turned on. but if the hazard lamp is suppose to be plugged in to the red lamp on the left, based on the wiring diagram there is no way that lamp can glow upon turning on the ign switch. Based on Dan masters book in order for the lamps to glow dimly you have to have 2 bulbs in the same circuit, which splits the voltage in half causing the lamps to glow dim. there is no other bulb in the hazard circuit. so If I plug the hazard bulb in the left red lamp, the PDWA bulb in the right and the low oil pressure into the Oil socket in the tach, when I turn on the IGN switch the right red bulb(PDWA) will glow dimly, the green lamp in tach gauge(oil) will glow dimly and both turn off when the car starts, and when I turn on the hazard switch the left red warning lamp will flash, Is this correct?

Hondo
 
Well Back in business, everything hooked back up no shorts. the new smoke installed. Now its back to the carburators, I even got my OD light I installed to come on when the OD is engauged



Hondo
 
Wasn't a correction for your problem. Just something I did.
When I got my car all those wires where soldered together and taped. Don't know if that was factory or not.
 
Glad you got it all back together. Had an early breakfast run today with the club so I was not able to check the locations of the wires. Again it's good to hear that the smoke did not come out of the wires.
 
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