Re: IML: Electrical question

[mark blitman <markblitman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

thanks to all for your help..i do hear the circuit breaker pop then 
re-set; also my dash lights around the left side of the speedometer are 
now off;dnk if this is related as it has happened before..sounds like i 
have a short somewhere...

Robin Giesbrecht wrote:

> True enough, the dimmer is in series with the switch. I remember when 
> mine starting acting up I was hoping it was the dimmer switch. Nope. I 
> ordered a new switch and started to install a relay but in the 
> meantime kept driving the car. Started to get a burnt plastic smell 
> every now and then. Not a good thing. When I pulled the old switch it 
> had started to self destruct(melting) which is where the burnt smell 
> was coming from. I am lucky I never had a fire.My advice is whatever 
> is causing your lights to act up figure out what it is asap as it is a 
> warning.
>
> Robin Giesbrecht
> 1972 Imperial
>
>
>
> > From: "Clint and Laurie Carter" <imperialschooner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reply-To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: IML: Electrical question
> > Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 06:35:15 -0800
> >
> > If the headlight switch doesn't work, you might also check the dimmer
> > switch, believe it or not.
> >
> > Clint Carter
> > '59 Crown
> > '65 Crown Coupe (as of this morning)
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Klebert L. Hall" <swampyankee@xxxxxxx>
> > To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 4:52 AM
> > Subject: Re: IML: Electrical question
> >
> >
> > > >From: mark blitman <markblitman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >Subject: IML: electrical question
> > > >
> > > >on the way home from Tampa airport last nite my '74 lights went 
> > off for
> > > >a split second; then came back on..several minutes later the same 
> > thing
> > > >happened..again back on in a second..it did it tonite as well..any 
> > hints
> > > >what is causing this?  thanks!
> > > >
> > > >mark blitman
> > >
> > >     Probably a bad headlight switch.
> > >        -Kle.
> > >
> > >
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