stretchit2
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Fellas,
This is a long story (electrical yikes!), but to be brief since I bought my car (61 MKII BT7) I have had it changed to a negative ground (and everything that goes along with that),& an electronic ignition, it now has an alternator, and I just had a new off switch installed. This work was done sequentially and not at the same time.
Since having the alternator installed I have been having an intermittent problem with charging the battery, sometimes it did and sometimes it did not (the idiot light is always on). During this time I noticed that the off switch didn't work like I think it used to. With the switch in the off position everything still worked, except the car would not start. I think when I first got the car when the off switch was off, nothing worked.
Anyway, I had the switch replaced today, and dummy me I didn't check how it worked at the mechanics. I was so caught up in the moment I simply drove the 15 miles back to my house (it was a great day today in So Cal, somewhere in the mid 70's -sorry, I digress). Driving home I noticed that my turn signal indicator was not working, so once at home I checked and neither the turn signals nor the brake lights worked. I then checked the newly installed off switch and discovered it did not turn off any of the things I thought it should turn off, pumps, lights, etc.
So I have two questions:
1) Does it sound like the off switch is still not operating properly? and,
2) When installing the off switch could the mechanic have done something to effect the turn signals and the brake lights, and if so what might that have been?
Technically that is three questions.
Your novice friend,
Stretch
This is a long story (electrical yikes!), but to be brief since I bought my car (61 MKII BT7) I have had it changed to a negative ground (and everything that goes along with that),& an electronic ignition, it now has an alternator, and I just had a new off switch installed. This work was done sequentially and not at the same time.
Since having the alternator installed I have been having an intermittent problem with charging the battery, sometimes it did and sometimes it did not (the idiot light is always on). During this time I noticed that the off switch didn't work like I think it used to. With the switch in the off position everything still worked, except the car would not start. I think when I first got the car when the off switch was off, nothing worked.
Anyway, I had the switch replaced today, and dummy me I didn't check how it worked at the mechanics. I was so caught up in the moment I simply drove the 15 miles back to my house (it was a great day today in So Cal, somewhere in the mid 70's -sorry, I digress). Driving home I noticed that my turn signal indicator was not working, so once at home I checked and neither the turn signals nor the brake lights worked. I then checked the newly installed off switch and discovered it did not turn off any of the things I thought it should turn off, pumps, lights, etc.
So I have two questions:
1) Does it sound like the off switch is still not operating properly? and,
2) When installing the off switch could the mechanic have done something to effect the turn signals and the brake lights, and if so what might that have been?
Technically that is three questions.
Your novice friend,
Stretch