[DML] Breaking it

["Christopher M. Hawes" <chris@xxxx>]

After I fitted a reflector the other day in my rear tail light cluster.
(Kindly offered by a DOC member as my car was always missing one) I cleaned
both clusters which dramatically increased the brightness but have now
noticed that my break lights have packed up.

I am going to get a meter to check if there are any breaks.

Theories at the moment are as follows:-

1) The Breaklight switch has decided to quit

2) The wiring from the switch is knackered

3) Have absolutely no other theories.....

I have not had the car that long, still yet to get my hands on a circuit
diagram. Does anyone know if one exists online?????

Any suggestions???

Thanks in advance

Chris H
#5255






----- Original Message -----
From: twinenginedmc12 <twinenginedmc12@xxxx>
To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 3:48 PM
Subject: [DML] Re: Stuck Door


> --- In dmcnews@xxxx, wmack <wmack@xxxx> wrote:
> > I still can't get my driver's door open. I have tried messing with
> the rods
> > and everything, and nothing works. I'm at the point now where I am
> thinking
> > of drilling out the old latch assembly from the inside. Has anyone
> tried this
> > before?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Willie
> > Vin 5043
>
> Hi Willie.
>
> It sounds frustrating. I'd be eyeballing my hammer as the tool of
> choice by now, I'm sure (just kidding). If you can wait a day,
> before drilling, I'll root around inside my door to come up with a
> troubleshooting sequence. If it were my car, I would not drill out
> the latch or use force unless there were no alternatives. You
> mentioned in your first post that the rear latch works okay, and that
> the door clears the rear pin. How did you determine that the door
> clears the pin? Did you pull on the door with the front latch stuck
> closed?
>
> What have you removed so far from the inside of the door to get at
> the linkage?
>
> It's easy to tell whether the door is just a little jammed. I doubt
> it is. To test the theory that the door is just jammed, you can
> manipulate the latch rods inside the car, while having someone else
> gently lift the door from the outside, from the bottom of the door,
> not the handle, which breaks off easily. You can also do this alone
> by reaching in the open window to manipulate the rods, while
> simultaneously lifting the door.
>
> I suspect that the latch is still in fact closed, as if it were
> locked ,and that we haven't figured out yet exactly what is wrong
> with the linkage.
>
> Rick Gendreau
>
>
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