On 1 Mar 96, MrJimmy3@aol.com wrote:
> Are the two contacts for the same signal i.e. - are there two in case one > goes bad. yes, redundant contacts for greater reliability. :-) > > The reason for the quesiton - when i carefully bent the arm on the wiper to > develope new contact - I did it ever so slightly. I would like to bend it > even more to have a nice clean contact surface. do not have too much tension on it so as to increase surface pressure friction and wear thru the thin film coating. i would leave it stock pressure but clean the underside of the points and the carbon track. > > Also, those of you who have done this fix - how long did it work for?? air flow meter on my Toyota has gone just about exactly 100,000 additional miles after a cleaning at 166K miles. '87 wasserboxer has about 300 miles after cleaning and it still is good. -dan
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