I just finished soldering new grounds into the double brown ground wires to the lamp sockets, filing crud off the contacts, applying electrical grease and using existing headlight assembly mounting screws to attach new eyes to the farm as extra grounds. This solved my "weak LED when lights on" problem but did not improve my turn signals. I may have to look around under the dash for that. It also could be the result of installing a newer foil on the cluster a little while back, but the turn signal indicator light was working until recently. Jim On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 9:40 AM Oldguyflier <oldguyflier@yahoo.com> wrote: > All the ground wires are brown, plus pulled the two "crown" ground > clusters from under the dash behind the fuze block and remade the > connectors and cleaned the crowns with deoxit. > Wiped the blood from the back of my old hands from the scrapes and I was > done! > I also removed the headlights, soldered in the headlight grounds to the > individual ground wires coming from the light connectors and drilled a > small hole in the body for the grounding screws. > > > Hi, Jim, >> Just finished about five days of chasing the same symptoms. Finally just >> remade every ground int he dash and ran a local ground from each headlight >> to the body. > > |
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