81 Imp Tail Lights!!!

["david utecht" <stealthloader@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the information.
  I am missing pages 8-171 & 8-172 and it looks like this is where the
information is supposed to be.  I'll check the parts stores tomorrow and
pick up the bulbs. If Dick B. is right, and he usually is, does any one know
what bulb will be a good sub for the #904 if it's not available?
  Also with the dash and column re-wired I still have a short in the turn
signals.  The wiring has checked good in the past and and since the turn
signal switch was broken that's where we thought the short was (there wasn't
a short until the switch broke).  The emergency flashers work and so do the
brake lights but the lights were all different in the back and I was told by
an old Chrysler mechanic that it was possible for the wrong lights in this
car to cause a short,  I didn't think so but at this point I don't have much
to lose by changing them.  If this doesn't fix the problem I guess I'll just
have to start over shooting the harness wire by wire.

Dave U.
81 Imp

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[mailto:mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bill Watson
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 6:50 PM
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Subject: Re: IML: 81 Imp Tail Lights!!!



There are 10 light bulbs across the rear end of the 1982-83 Imperial.  From
the outside in :

Side marker lamp (#168)
Tail/Turn/Stop Lamp (#1157)
Tail/Turn/Stop Lamp (#1157)
Tail Lamp (#904)
Back up Lamp (#1156)

If you lay out the rear wiring across the back of the trunk, you can put the
right bulbs in the right spots by following the above from the right rear
outside in and then reversing the above order to work your way out to the
left outside.

The service manual says the rear cornering bulbs are #1157, but they are the
small glass base bulb #168 and not the larger brass base bulb.

The rear wiring/bulbs is under a cover which can be removed by removing the
Phillips head screws just inside the lower  trunk edge.

You also have two licence plate lamps above the licence plate.  You will
need two #168 bulbs.  Install them by removing the two screws for each lamp
and remove the socket/lens asssembly.

Bill
Vancouver, BC


----- Original Message -----
From: "david utecht" <stealthloader@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 4:00 PM
Subject: IML: 81 Imp Tail Lights!!!


>
>    I finally have the rebuilt dash and steering column in the car but I
have
> one problem left to fix, I don't know what tail lights go where.  I didn't
> find them in there and I don't have the owners book.  What bulbs do I need
> and where do they go?
>
> Dave U.
> 81 Imp
>
>
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