Monster Man
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my military 3 lever light switch is beyond terminal. It burned out and everything went with it, and I couldn't turn it on or off and ended up stripping the lever off. The reason I couldn't budge it was the contacts had melted, and the little plate deal that is held there by a spring just pushed into the plastic and it got stuck. The wire that appears to have caused it was the yellow one, decoded to be part of the turn signals. Odd, since the signals weren't on when the lights died. My question is, before I attempt to make a new switch block or buy a new one, anybody that has had there switch die, is all you did replace it? Was there any wires anywhere shorted? I couldn't find any that were visible, and once they go out of sight they're all tightly wrapepd. I can't figure why it died other than the switch is old and crummy
I cut the dead wires (the yellow and two green), and reinstalled the cam and lever but without the one plate and spring that had melted, that way it wasn't sending juice through the bad circuit. Put it back on and I got nothing. Pretty discouraging
also, should I have been driving with it in "service" position instead of "stop light"? Could that have burned it up?
Are the headlights/taillights special 24v ones?
right now we rigged up two spare lights running twelve volts off of one of the batteries so we can signal and show brake lights. I want to get this thing back to normal but want it to be cheap and easy, but not blow out again fue to a shrot
PS, I couldn't find a single circuit breaker. Maybe I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm lookign for something with a switch on it to reset it, no? Can't find ANYTHING of the sort under the dash, on the firewall, next to the batteries, etc.?
I cut the dead wires (the yellow and two green), and reinstalled the cam and lever but without the one plate and spring that had melted, that way it wasn't sending juice through the bad circuit. Put it back on and I got nothing. Pretty discouraging
also, should I have been driving with it in "service" position instead of "stop light"? Could that have burned it up?
Are the headlights/taillights special 24v ones?
right now we rigged up two spare lights running twelve volts off of one of the batteries so we can signal and show brake lights. I want to get this thing back to normal but want it to be cheap and easy, but not blow out again fue to a shrot
PS, I couldn't find a single circuit breaker. Maybe I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm lookign for something with a switch on it to reset it, no? Can't find ANYTHING of the sort under the dash, on the firewall, next to the batteries, etc.?
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