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Old 10-29-2003, 10:28 PM
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Re: correction
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Originally posted by Rocketjosh
I talked to the owner and it turns out I had it wrong. The running lights are the ones having the problem. I figure on the drive home I can just put a couple of bicycle blinkers in the back window (a possible ticket im sure).

Josh
Well, if it's like my car (and I guess most Alfas), you're going to want to go around and make sure all the grounds are clean. I had to clean the grounds before most of my running lights would work. Many of the lights have a ground wire ending in a ring terminal attached by a nut to some convenient stud holding, say, the tail light assembly in place. That stud then has to reach ground on the body. It's relying on a lot of small metal pieces touching each other to be clean enough to conduct electricity. In a lot of places I used DeOxit red to help the conductivity, and sometimes followed it up with DeOxit blue. I don't know if that stuff is generally used for automotive work, but it's a godsend for a lot of electronics. Also don't forget to make sure the contacts in the bulb sockets are clean, the bulbs are good, and the contacts on the bulbs themselves are clean. And, as has been said earlier, if jostling the fuse box seems to revive them, that's a pretty good indication that the fuse contacts and the wire connectors there need to be cleaned.
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