Date:         Mon, 1 Nov 2004 17:37:39 -0500
Reply-To:     Tim Demarest <tim.demarest@POBOX.COM>
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From:         Tim Demarest <tim.demarest@POBOX.COM>
Subject:      Re: Reverse Lights
Comments: To: Sam Johnson <wrey45@YAHOO.COM>
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Sam,

         Sounds very familiar... in my case, there was a bad splice in the
wiring.

         You should be able to verify the wiring by pulling the wires off
the switch and jumping them together. If you don't get lights, then there's
a wiring problem somewhere... if you do, then whatever parts in the tranny
are supposed to activate the switch aren't doing it (and fixing it is
outside my experience).

         My money is on the wiring... of course, you could have two burned
out bulbs, never overlook the obvious! :-)

Tim

At 04:50 PM 11/1/2004 -0500, Sam Johnson wrote:
>Hi All,
>         My reverse lights are not working even though I replaced the
>transmission switch with a known good one from the scrap. The #12 fuse is
>good and the horn works - all bulbs look good. Any ideas why the back-up
>lights would still not work?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Sam