Hi Bruce,
Check your headlight doors. Sounds like one or both are not shutting or
opening properly. You can manually turn them open or closed with the
thumbwheel located on the motor itself. It's located right behind the grill
about in the center of the car. The wheel is on the bottom part of the
motor.
Steve Miner
Miner Auto Service
Winnebago, MN 56098
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Stubblefield" <audiblefeast@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 6:55 PM
Subject: IML: WHACKY 78 NYB ELECTRICAL
> Hello everyone,
> Get a load of these two strange electrical symptoms
> in my 78 NYB.
> With the igition on, motor running or not, there is
> an intermittant clicking/buzzing coming from inside
> the dash, right behind the steering wheel. Every time
> it makes the sound, the ammeter moves slightly to the
> "C" side from its normal middle position. When I turn
> on the headlights, the noise stops. What it seems NOT
> to be: the radio, the turn signal flashers, the
> emergency flashers, the warning buzzer. I'd like to
> find it soon, since I fear something is getting ready
> to burn up, like the instrument cluster voltage
> regulator, if this car has one.
> The second issue: The car has been running badly
> since the new carb was put in. (Federal model 400 ci
> w/lean burn). It's been OK when cold, then
> intermittantly loses either fuel or spark at speed,
> sometimes at start of hard accel, sometimes at start
> of soft accel from coasting. A little relay happened
> to come loose under the dash, cutting power to the
> power windows and seats. AMAZINGLY ENOUGH, with this
> relay disconnected, the rough running is cut by about
> 98%.
> The relay is a about 1 1/2" by 1/2" inch and has
> two sets of male paddle connectors; one single
> connector at one end and a triangle-configuration of
> three more paddles on the other end.
> Can anyone imagine why disconnecting this should
> result in smooth running?
>
> Thanks!
>
> PS I'm scanning a '69 FSM into photoshop. Any advide
> about setting up these files for inclusion in the tech section?
>
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