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Hi,
Thanks for the feedback. Glad those diagrams were the right years.
Yeah boy, I know about dash diving and doing the breast stroke or front crawl. Old backs don't do well, while looking upwards the whole time.
Yes, according to the diagrams this device looks like it could be a problem even though it has no moving parts that convey the current per say.
I have opened one of those up and it's a bunch of wire coiled up together. There is a reed switch in the mist of all that when conditions are right will close to turn on the bulb out light, on, in the instrument cluster.
I hope you are correct that it was corrosion someplace in the connector.
There is another thread on here under Transit Wind postings.
Art Benstein and I have been discussing a very similar problem.
It is involving a voltage drop that is affecting the car with running its fuel pumps. It's a lot more complicated as there are several things or conditions of sequences that control the running of the car.
In this case, it can be very well the same causes.
Art pointed out that these cars are 30 years old and have lived through many variations of weather conditions. Corrosion is always at work no matter how old any car is!
I'm glad to hear that wiggling the connections made the vultures fly away!
Yes moving them on and off does do some scrubbing.
12 volts is not a lot of voltage but many other things on ALL cars use half of that much. A tarnishing film effects low voltage signals that need to travel fast and be of proper shape to be recognized by the next component.
This is what scares me on the newest cars! They are getting very finicky to keep these internal combustion engines on the road. They are selling gadgets to attract buyers and not making long life drive trains anymore.
Question is, Do you look for a mechanic or a computer nerd anymore?
The shop rate is not just for labor anymore either! It's like a funeral, there are up charges, all the while you are getting buried in debt.
To top that off, they want to remove the drivers and that might be a good thing, as I see lots of 4 X4 "behemoths" that need to go off the highways, where vultures truly hang out.
They are making the new vehicles so small and light that one could lose their GPS signals when one of those trucks stop over you at a stop light.
Sorry, a slight exaggeration or not, if you look at the BMW not so, Smart car!
Might as well be on a recumbent bicycle.
I like my old dependable, stay out of the shop, Volvos!
I suggest that you get good and friendly with a tube of anti-corrosion paste or grease.
You might want to go looking at any connectors out there under the hood and smear some around inside them at your Leasure!
You can also use a spray like LPS ONE in the fuse panel. A light dusting will suffice every couple years.
It's a cold void area that attracts moisture from a drivers wet feet.
That driver foot panel doesn't strike me as a wonderful place either.
Phil
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