Vacuum Hoses Connect to Plastic Nipples

["Kerry Pinkerton" <pinkertonk@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ed, I'm not sure what you are looking for but the repair section has quite a lot on headlights, including quite a bit from our own Dr. Dick.

 

http://imperialclub.com/Repair/Electrical/lights.htm

 

KerryP
Patch panels fabricated
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Imperials -- 50 Limo, 57 roadster, 61's, 64, 68 Convert, 73, a 66 300 and a bunch of lesser marques

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Subject: Re: IML: Vacuum Hoses Connect to Plastic Nipples

I searched the archives for 'headlight switch rebuild' and didn't find your article. If you know where it is or have a better way of locating it I'd be very interested! Needless to say, I knew that someone had been this way before!

Thank you,

--Ed
EdH
'68 LeBaron FDHT
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On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 11:29 PM, Dick Benjamin wrote:

Back in January 2003, I posted detailed directions as to both of these items
(the headlight switch rebuild and the HVAC push button control replacement).
Search the IML archives, you should find both posts. If you can't let me
know and I'll dig it out for you.

Dick Benjamin
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Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 3:44 PM
Subject: IML: Vacuum Hoses Connect to Plastic Nipples

Thanks to Dave I managed to remove my 68's dash panel and revealed to
me was the scourge of the ages:

1. Water damage to the Headlight Switch: I will attempt to disassemble
and rejuvenate this
2. Water damage to Dashboard light dimmer: Same as above.

These will involve drilling out the stamping and probably watching a
bunch of springs leaping into my face never to be reassembled again. I
will fill you in on this operation as it happens. Hoping that this will
be the remedy for non-operative parking lights and dash lights.

Next, I encountered the source of a strange and erie sound that comes
from the dash area when the car is running. I wasn't sure if it was the
Speedo cable or the vacuum for the parking break. Instead, it is the
vacuum switch which controls the rear window defogger or the rear seat
heat. The switch is white plastic and has several nipples, about 3/8"
long, maybe 1/8" diameter, arranged on the rear of the body. They, in
turn, fit into a female socket made of rubber. The problem: One of the
nipples is inside the socket, broken off from the back of the switch,
and at least one of the nipples, still on the switch, is cracked and
about to come off. Air is being sucked into the cracked and broken
nipples and that is making the sound I'm hearing.

Is there a way to glue these back on and strengthen the cracked one?
I'm sure there's no replacement for this part. I wouldn't even ask. It
has a 58024 and a Pentastar stamped into the plastic.

I have uploaded pictures of the operation: Two corroded switches and
the back of the plastic vacuum switches to the following URL:

http://homepage.mac.com/printbear/PhotoAlbum4.html

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