The DPO of the Zook butchered the wiring (and the more I look, the more I think it was in a fairly serious wreck at some point...) and I've been restoring things to get it street legal.
Buncha stuff came in today and I got the turn signals repaired/replaced and working. Fixed the wiring for the brake/tail light, fixed the wiring for the headlight (but ordered the wrong headlight, dammit...) Testing things out, noticed the tail light wasn't working. Hmmmmm.
No tail, no brake. Checked voltages at the socket, all good. Oh...wait...maybe I got the little disk that holds the contacts back in the socket body back-asswards after soldering new wires on them. Flipped it around, put the bulb back in and PRESTO...light. Wait...the brakes don't seem to affect it. Hmmmm. And it's REALLY bright...maybe a shorted brake light switch? Checked the front one...nope operating as designed.
The genius that designed the location of the rear switch should get some kind of award. After fighting for most of an hour to get it out...hmmmmmm...operating as designed. WTF?
Took the tail light apart again, looked at it carefully. "That doesn't look right..." Flipped the disk back around, put the bulb back in and no tail light, but the brake light is working now.
Saaaaaayyyyy, you don't suppose....nah, I couldn't be THAT stoopid could I?
"Yeah, ya could, Boy Genius. In fact, this puts you in the running for Moron of the Month!"
Original problem was a blown tail light filament in the bulb...
Buncha stuff came in today and I got the turn signals repaired/replaced and working. Fixed the wiring for the brake/tail light, fixed the wiring for the headlight (but ordered the wrong headlight, dammit...) Testing things out, noticed the tail light wasn't working. Hmmmmm.
No tail, no brake. Checked voltages at the socket, all good. Oh...wait...maybe I got the little disk that holds the contacts back in the socket body back-asswards after soldering new wires on them. Flipped it around, put the bulb back in and PRESTO...light. Wait...the brakes don't seem to affect it. Hmmmm. And it's REALLY bright...maybe a shorted brake light switch? Checked the front one...nope operating as designed.
The genius that designed the location of the rear switch should get some kind of award. After fighting for most of an hour to get it out...hmmmmmm...operating as designed. WTF?
Took the tail light apart again, looked at it carefully. "That doesn't look right..." Flipped the disk back around, put the bulb back in and no tail light, but the brake light is working now.
Saaaaaayyyyy, you don't suppose....nah, I couldn't be THAT stoopid could I?
"Yeah, ya could, Boy Genius. In fact, this puts you in the running for Moron of the Month!"
Original problem was a blown tail light filament in the bulb...