--- Playaz Klubb <playazklubb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Last night on my way back from Logan airport my left > blinker stopped blinking, my right one blinks fine. > The left goes on, I just have to blink it with my > hand. Do I have to pull the column apart or do the > blinker relays fail one at a time? Electrical is my weakest link, as will become clear in what I add to this post, but the problem you describe is most often a burned out bulb at one end or the other. (Note that these bulbs have double filaments and therefore one that works as a taillight may not work as a blinker.) Hopefully this is all it is. I wish I could help on the rest of the post, but I need help in similar areas on my two old MoPars: The Plymouth has developed a thing where the left blinker flashes inside the car and at the taillight but not at the parking light. When I turn the parking lights on the left turn parking light lights up, as does the turn signal indicator on the dash, but the right turn parking light doesn't light... Also, someone tried to steal the Plymouth a couple months back... ...more accurately, the Plymouth had been successfully hotwired and stolen when found a couple blocks away. (As if a solid black station wagon version of Christine could successfully blend in anywhere...) The heater blower and temperature gauge haven't worked since the hotwire and I assume their wiring was damaged. I have the early ('57 only) FSM and I assume I can rewire everything myself from this, but am worried about whether the temp gauge might've been killed by these morons. The temp gauge is but one discrepancy with the 300-K, which is admittedly new for this list but probably not that different electrically. The gas gauge never works on the K and I assume that's the float. The temp gauge starts working again for the first little while after starting it up if it's been sitting for a while, but quits after the car is shut off and won't start working again unless the car is given a few days off. I had suspected the 5V power supply in the instrument cluster but it seems to me that'd be out all the time? The blinkers are working most of the time on the K since I replaced the flasher, although last night they chose to quit on me just as I was making a left turn in front of a police car. (I think the young cop was happy to have an excuse to ask me about the car; in any event, I didn't get a ticket.) The indicators on the dash are what make me crazy. The left one is lit all the time, getting brighter when the panel lights are lit; the right one goes on when I hit the high beams, and the high beam indicator flashes (and the speedometer lighting goes out) with the right blinker is going. It's acting to an extent like I have bulbs in the wrong sockets, but I know the '63-'64 Valiant & Dart had printed circuit instrument clusters and would have assumed the '63-'64 Chryslers did as well... (FWIW, I don't yet have a FSM for the K but hope to get one soon.) Thanks in advance! ===== Mike Sealey, San Francisco CA '57 Plymouth Sport Suburban '64 Chrysler 300-K 2dr Hardtop __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? NEW from Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1
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