Sorry to hear that Marc, but unfortunately not unusual. When I bought by
68 sedan, the dash lights were not working, which I suspect the switch was
responsible (never got the patience to fix them!) . Not long down the
road, the head lights gave up. At the time, it was my only car, so I could
not wait for a switch replacement (which as you may or may not know, are
unavailable), so I wired in a new cheapy looking switch, along with a
headlight relay to reduce the current through the switch. Along with that,
I also installed an also cheapy looking external light bulb to "illuminate"
the dash at night. It works well, but its ugly. Later, I found a switch
from a junkyard in Austin, but I always procrastinate to install it...
You should install a headlight relay ASAP to prevent/postpone the headlight
failure. As for long term suggestion, lets wait for Dick B. to
respond. Being a mechanical engineer, switches and such are outside of my
expertise! ;)
D^2
At 12:47 PM 3/24/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Well, the Dallas meet went off pretty much w/o a hitch. The only real problem
>that came up was the headlight switch on my '67 started smoking and
>subsequently I have no running lights, brake lights, and dash lights. The
>headlights are still working and no fuses appear to be blown . Has anybody
>had any kind of experience with this sort of problem ? All comments and
>suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks,
>
>Marc
>' 67 Crown Coupe
Back to the Home of the Forward Look Network