'68 electrical bugs & getting the cluster bezel off

[jason reizner <jreizner_lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

after going through my new '68 hardtop, i've found a
couple of electrical glitches, and was wondering if
anything sounded familiar to anyone before i devoted a
weekend to tracing shorts.  i haven't had a chance to
get my hands on a factory manual yet, so i'm working
off the electrical diagrams for the '67 off the
website.  from what i've seen, most of the diagrams
have jived with what's in the '68 so far, but gimme a
holler if there's anything i should look out for.

well, starting from the back and working forward:

the car has no reverse lights. i crawled under the
bumper to find the connectors for both of them were
unhooked.  easy enough i thought, until i plugged them
in and found that my gauges stopped working and the
turns signals wouldn't light up.  i unhooked the
connectors, and everything was back to normal.  all of
the other exterior lighting works fine.

none of the interior lights [either in the c-pillar or
the front doors] come on when any of the doors are
opened.  i'd be inclined to think it's a power problem
and not a ground problem as the jamb switches look
alright, and the manual switch in the back right door
does nothing.  also, the map light over the ignition
is dead.

finally, the dash doesn't light up anywhere.  there's
juice on both sides of the fuse, and all the head &
tail lights work, so i'm looking at the rheostat in
the dash.  the only problem is that i took all the
screws out holding in the bezel, but the bezel keeps
getting hung up on the column by these two little
prong things at the bottom of the arch where the
column passes under, and refuses to budge.  is there a
trick to getting this puppy out?

thanks everyone,
jason reizner
chicago

68 imperial crown
90 grand wagoneer
85 grand wagoneer
83 wagoneer limited
87 xj6 sIII 4.2




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