Date:         Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:18:55 -0700
Reply-To:     Mike Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Mike Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: The clock is still not going, despite ...
Comments: To: Zoltan Kuthy <zolo@FOXINTERNET.NET>
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My clock wasn't running when I got Mellow Yellow. I replaced the
capacitors, it continued not to run. A year or so later, I had the dash
out to try installing a clock from an '86 (I think it was) and found that
the '86 doesn't fit. But in the process I discovered that the foil that
connects to the clock's ground tab had a crack in it, preventing current
from passing through the clock. A bit of wire to jumper the clock's ground
tab to a nearby ground point and the clock works. My suggestion?
Disconnect the + and ground foil tabs from the lugs on the rear of the
clock and directly apply +12 and chassis to those two lugs. If the clock
works, check your foils, if it doesn't then it's internal to the clock.

Pardon if this has already been suggested -- I came aboard the thread late.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR



On 4/13/2008 7:43 PM Zoltan Kuthy wrote:

> I changed the capacitors and it is still not going.  I am baffled.  Who knows?
> Zoltan
>