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Subject:Re: speedo/tach lights out
From:David Beierl
Date:Fri, 17 Mar 2000 21:42:19 -0500

At 02:52 AM 3/17/2000 , John McLean wrote:
>I have a new electrical gremlin:  recently my speedo and tach lights
>have started to go out intermittently.

The *very first* thing I fixed on mine, sitting at my sister's kitchen
table in Scotland (it was her van then), was the rheostat in the headlight
switch.  Just took the thing apart and cleaned as seemed appropriate, I
forget the details.  Worked fine ever since, about 100,000 miles and 8 years.

david
David Beierl - Providence, RI
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