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Old 09-19-2010, 10:43am   #1
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Default So there I was...

..driving down the road last night after Lutzdog and I finished bleeding the brakes and replacing the leaky caliper on the Green machine, when the headlights and tail lights went out.

Funny thing I never realized how dark the road I was on is at night until that moment. Turned on the 4-ways and limped the mile back home driving by the light of my blinkers.

The lights popped back on just as I got to my property line.

So what do you think? Loose Ground? Where is the ground that handles that circuit?


(By the way, Thanks again Phil, for the help !)
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Old 10-15-2010, 11:37am   #2
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Jim,

What year is the Green machine? Is it a 75? If so, I have a really good colored electrical diagram that we can look at for the ground and where it should be connected to.
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Check the condition of the fuse box, too. If the terminals have had a chance to corrode over time, it might be as simple as a fuse not making a good connection.
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Is it haunted?!?

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Glad the hazards worked though.
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Glad the hazards worked though.
sure!!
sounds like it may be worth pulling that headlight switch to do some circuit checking
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Yeah, getting back to this....
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What year vette? My 74 impala did the same thing and it was a bad hi-low beam switch that is mounted on the floor.
My service manual for '74 had a good matrix of fixes and it was easy to trace.
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