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I bought one of those clamp type current meters on eBay. If Bills ground list is correct, I want to rewire the headlights to frame ground. Hence I can find the two ground wires back in the relay box with my new meter.
Why do this? I want to get switched +12 up in front of the car. It would make a really easy job to use one of those existing ground wires.
Daytime running lights?Quote:
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Farrar
Side marker blinking, motorized headlight covers and maybe DRL.Quote:
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Started installing my new done light timer from Dave. Got dark and late, hope to finish up tomorrow.
After having 4915's rear fascia repainted I noticed the louvers were almost resting on the fascia at the latch. After 30 years the Support Buffers (the rubber strips on either side that the louver rests on) although still there, looked tired. Ordered new ones from DMCH and that solved the problem. There is now maybe a quarter inch clearance from the louver to the fascia ... keeping 4915 happy is a never ending job.
Backed it out and washed it.
I'm gearing up for suspension work.
I want to drive it like crazy, but there's enough rock salt on our roads you'd think it was actually snow!
I recently realized the lack of rock salt doesn't mean our roads are salt free. I saw salt going down in liquid form a week ago. They spray it on out high powered jets. Now when the roads are dry it's plain to see 5 lines of salt as you drive.
Used my new (second hand) clamp on current meter to find the two headlight ground wires in the relay compartment. Works like a charm but I'm sure the newer ones have a smart auto zero. Mine has to be zeroed with an adjustment. But it's a nice unit with two ranges of 20 amp and 200 amp. It just plugs into my normal DVM.
I hope to get the car up on ramps this weekend and get the headlights grounded to the frame. I will then do measurements to calculate the resistance of the frame. I want to know why DMC ran ground wires and not used the frame. Maybe they planned to have a "blown headlight" warning lamp. Or maybe the frame resistance drops to much voltage.
So do I, especially after looking at various folks' ground bus installations. Please let us know what you find! :)Quote:
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Farrar
Finished the aforementioned dome light timer installation. Parade mode rocks!!
Started trying to troubleshoot my flickering A/C panel lights.