Nekokaburi the Merry Prankster
Mar. 30th, 2006 09:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brynndragonYesterday was gorgeous and work was so slow as to be not moving, so I went home at 4 and decided it was time to replace the broken brake and night-light bulbs and tail-light gasket in my beloved Nekokaburi. Open up the rear hatch, take out the 4 nuts that releases the tail-light assembly, take off the old gasket, take out the bulb holders, take out the bulbs. A confetti-trail of white comes out of the bulb socket (unsurprisingly, since I was replacing the gasket due to its inability to keep water out of the tail-light assembly). A little steel wool and vinegar cleans up the worst of the corrosion and I put the new bulbs in. There are two types of bulbs (one type for the reserve light and turn signal, the other a combo break and night-light), but they're easy to tell apart - if the double-filament in the combo bulb doesn't give it away, the double-connector on the bottom will. Put all the new bulbs in and while the combo bulbs work like a charm the turn-signal and the backup lights no longer function. *sigh* Ain't nothing easy. Mine housemate ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
metahacker grabs his voltmeter and we make sure there's no connectivity or voltage issues, which there seems to be none. We conclude the bulbs are likely busted from having bounced around the back of my car for months and head down to our FLAPS for new ones. Put the new ones in. . . same result as before. It's starting to hint at getting dark and we're out of ideas, so I button it back up to deal with another day.
This morning I drove her to work. I braced myself for the fast-flicker you get from turn signals when one is busted. . . but it clicked away at the normal speed. I get to work and check it out and both the reverse light and the turn signal are now fully functional. This is all the more confusing, but at least I don't have to track it down anymore. Maybe their ground wire wasn't grounded properly when the tail-light assembly wasn't in place? But we checked the ground wires and they seemed fine. Any ideas?
metahacker grabs his voltmeter and we make sure there's no connectivity or voltage issues, which there seems to be none. We conclude the bulbs are likely busted from having bounced around the back of my car for months and head down to our FLAPS for new ones. Put the new ones in. . . same result as before. It's starting to hint at getting dark and we're out of ideas, so I button it back up to deal with another day.This morning I drove her to work. I braced myself for the fast-flicker you get from turn signals when one is busted. . . but it clicked away at the normal speed. I get to work and check it out and both the reverse light and the turn signal are now fully functional. This is all the more confusing, but at least I don't have to track it down anymore. Maybe their ground wire wasn't grounded properly when the tail-light assembly wasn't in place? But we checked the ground wires and they seemed fine. Any ideas?
