[tcb] Re: Gremlins
- From: wuzmop@xxxxxxx
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 15:26:02 -0400
A wiring diagram, plenty of spare time and ALOT of patience is what you need.
Something is loose and wonky in there somewhere.
-----Original Message-----
From: Julie <julie.hey.ho.lets.go@xxxxxxxxx>
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tue, May 10, 2011 2:20 pm
Subject: [tcb] Gremlins
This is probably a Chuck question since my '68 zebra Bus doesn't have normal
iring and he is familiar with Denis' abnormal wiring. This Bus has glass fuses
nd everything looks different.
At times on my driveway or at my mechanic's the horn, brake lights, brites and
ow beams and turn signals have worked correctly and then they work on quickie
est drives but then on longer journeys (like to work) they get freaky. Like
he turn signals work but when I turn them off they go off but the green
riangles stay lit. Sometimes I can get these to turn off by putting my
eadlights on and clicking them to brite to turn the green triangles off. Or
hen sometimes the turn signals just quit.
Later (maybe hours or days later) after I make it to my destination, I start to
iddle. I mess with the fuses up front, I mess with the wires in the back, I
ess with the wiring in the turn signal housing (some of the wires in there are
n their last leg, one is now unattached, I think it has to do with switching
rom low to high beams) and usually I get it back to some state of working. And
hen I test drive, it works well enough. And then I drive to work and it goes
oofy again and stops working.
So here is my theory, can the turn signal relay work normal sometimes like
after
period of rest but not work other times because it gets hot over a longer
rive?
Or do I need to call a priest and have an exorcism?
When the turn signals, horn and brake lights stop working all at the same time
I
elieve that has more to do with a fuse that gets loose.
My alternator light sometimes goes on when I am stopped at a traffic light
specially if I have my headlights on but when I start moving it does go off. I
hought perhaps a timing/idle problem but the mechanic worked on that today and
he green light is coming on again when stopped at traffic lights even without
he headlights on. I don't know if this has anything to do with the turn signal
remlins.
Thanks for reading this babble, I can't believe you made it this far. I like
uirks but this Bus has a few too many.
Julie
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