TomoHawk

My blue light only goes on when you turn on the rear defogger, not when you turn the dash lights on, which is correct. On the new car, there is a light next to the defogger switch. What is that thing in the picture under your seat belts light? Some kind of switch?

There used to be self-service junk yards. For $20, you take off a hood, pile stuff on it and drag it out. "All you can carry" night.

What looks like a colored window is really a window, but it's just sitting on the solid switch case. I think that if you popped out that translucent piece, and drilled a hole behind it, then reinstall, you could insert a bulb and have it lit in the dark. I still wonder why there is no light on the defog switch, and the hazard switch has one,which gets used less frequently.

OOps. My bad. It was the Defog switch that have the lamp inside. It's stil pretty much the same design tho. A small rectangular plate with a hole in it fits in the cavity, and a lamp socket goes in the hole.

IMO, the (local) pick-N-pulls just want to pick your wallet! Stephen- how much would you want for a set of injector connectors? The ones in the article will cost you $120 to do an engine...

Well, I just wasted 1 1/2 hrs going to the "pick-a-Part" where you can't pick your own parts! First, they (some girl with a rough voice) ask you what CAR (singular) you are looking for, and then they tell you "we don't got any OLD cars. Nothing older than 5 years. Then they don't have any imports, except for some rebuildable 350Zs that were recently totalled. I would have to either buy the whole car or a whole engine (with a warrantee) to get the injector connectors, or any part. All the other JYs in Ohio are the same. Greedy fools. BTW, the injector connectors on my 97 escort will fit, but they don't have boots- just a length of protectove tubing (like shrink tube.) Back to the Bosch connector at NAPA...

Is the hazard switch supposed to have a lamp in it that lights up with the other dash lights? If so mine has been somehow removed, and the metal lamp socket holder plate lost. I can probably make a new plate, but I'd need a lamp socket. Can you get those? thx

I was told that it's called a kick panel...

Of all the ammeters I've seen (all domestic ones) the shunts were attached to the terminals on the back of the ammeter. They were just strips of metal. they could conceivably be anywhere on the ammeter circuit.

He's right. the shunt is a really heavy-duty resistor of a value that using the equation V=I * R, or I=V/R, where you know V=12 volts, and the shunt is (so many ohms), the ammeter shows you the Amps flowing from the battery. I've seen people make shunts from combinations of resistors(both prallel & series). You're best off getting the right part from a good source.

No Zs in Ohio either, except the ones that get trucked in. Most AUTO PARTS people don't even know what a Datsun is!:devious: :devious:

Maybe it was 26th that was working on a Maxima O/D swap... I'm definitely going to do the swap on my car so I can to to the Daytona Nationals in Oct., but I just have to decide to do it either before it snows, or in the spring. That plus finding a place that will do "custom work" which most trans shops don't like to do- they just want the fast & easy jobs.

Thanks, man. I knew there was a simple way to do it. Either grommets, or a plastic dip.

Lots of places sell them. eBay is lousy with them. The idea for the metal ones is to have wire holders that don't break easily.

that's only if the insulation is cut or the spark gets out on it's own. So you just add a plasticized insulator to the metal holder. I see metal wire holder on just about all the muscle cars & hotods, but I don't think they're just bare metal.

Can you explain what you mean by that? IMO, the wire holder nees to be stiff enough to hold the wires from slipping or cpoming off once you squeeze it in, and stiff enough not to flex or droop, and so you can attach (bolt) it to a bracket. The plastic ones meet those criteria, and so I think some metal ones can do just as good.I would still keep the smaller 3-groove holders for the floating parts.

I've seen metal spark plug wire holders on many vintage cars, and since I've broken every holder I have at least once, I started thinking about making a set of aluminum ones. The old holders would be used for the pattern, and they would probably have to be bolted to the brackets on the valve cover. Maybe a dip into Plastikote to make it look a little like the plastic holders? thx

Well, there's 'art' and there's some people's desire to satisfy the hormones, and there's a desire to just be different. Everybody see's those things in a different way, and hopefully, the outcome is something positive. It's just that each kind of thing belongs in a different place. Sometimes I get the feeling that ricers are trying to push theit lifestyle onto the rest of society. Those old rodders probably are doing things much in the same way as the ricers. Only time will tell if it was a good thing or bad. My take is that the rodders helped develop what is now modern cars & competition/sportscars. Personally, 'art' isn't so bad a thing, like those old rat-rods or bikes, that are covered with junk, just to look unique. I'd still rather look at & travel in a rusty old 40's ford truck, than a blinged-out rice. The old truck has what I call character.

Maybe the kids could put all the energy, $$$ and hormones into developing a truly non-polluting, totally-electric car. I mean developing a power source & motor that'll get your car down the road while dripping water all over.

So, as per a recent request (Gary), I think I'll call this issue pretty much closed.

I'd say it's just another example of how parents don't care about their kids enough to show or share with them real standards of quality or life. Instead, they just let the kids fend for themselves, and while the kids aren't off trying to get into trouble, they invented the ricer style as a way to show of ftheir hormones. These kids end up reverting int otheir animal selves, and you see what happens: BIG-ger, LOUD-er, MORE of whatever they think will get them to the lead-dog position.No respect for what they DO have, or what he designers intended the machine to be. thx

Are you just selling the back end of the car?

Wright. I'll head out to the so-called pick-a-part, and see what I can find there.

Yeah, I hate those clips...., I had a problem a ouple weeks ago with the engine idling at 1500 ALL THE TIME, so when I hunted the problem down, I found that the connector was off the Aux. Air valve.:devious:

My favorite peeve is when people post a URL or Internet link and don't give a hint or description as to where it goes or what you will find there. It's like wriiting a phone number on a piece of empty paper and handing it to somebody.