chippa Slippery when dry Donating Members 368 Member For: 17y 5m 28d Gender: Male Location: Foot Hills W.A Posted 25/06/11 02:43 PM Share Posted 25/06/11 02:43 PM Guys I went for a drive tonight and I'm assuming its just a relay but someone might be able to shed some light on prob...So headlights on, go to indicate and blue instrumentation light cluster drops out completely and radio iluminates brightly like it does in the day time.....you could hear the contacts in the relay fluttering, only way I could get them back on was to give the indicator stork a bit of a flick and they would come back on and radio lighting would go back to night time mode (very technical description haha)Any help appreciated thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wenier Donating Members 1,736 Member For: 14y 11m 22d Gender: Male Location: Christchurch, New Zealand Posted 25/06/11 09:50 PM Share Posted 25/06/11 09:50 PM I believe if remembered rightly that its a bad solder joint in the back of the indicator stalk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chippa Slippery when dry Donating Members 368 Member For: 17y 5m 28d Gender: Male Location: Foot Hills W.A Posted 26/06/11 01:18 AM Author Share Posted 26/06/11 01:18 AM Yeah unfortunately I was thinking it might have something to do with the stork.....oh well so has anyone fixed this before??? does the steering wheel have to come off or what, I'm happy to fix it myself if it can be done... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuckSqueezeBangBlow ʎǝʞuoɯ ɹoıuǝs Donating Members 1,808 Member For: 16y 24d Gender: Male Posted 26/06/11 03:08 AM Share Posted 26/06/11 03:08 AM I did mine myself. you pull off the column shroud, then using a small screwdriver pull the rear cover off the indicator stalk. then you can see the awesome ford quality design. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banned1 Banned Banned 734 Member For: 14y 3m 28d Gender: Male Location: Caloundra Posted 26/06/11 03:27 AM Share Posted 26/06/11 03:27 AM (edited) also check the multi plug. could be as little as a poor connection. dry joints (solder) are easy to spot but if not too confident, just take the whole unit to an electronics shop, they will touch them up for you for a couple of bucks. easy to do yourself if you have a decent soldering iron setup. worth having in the man cave ! see what they look like.(poor connection from copper board to wiring which the solder is the link. )you dont need any new solder, just heat old stuff till it flows onto wire properly. best use a flux pen as that is the lubricant(touch joint prior to heating ) that helps them both bond to each other. http://dragon.herts.ac.uk/~eleqdml/teaching/general/soldering/Solder3.gifhttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Cold_solder_joint2.jpg/220px-Cold_solder_joint2.jpg Edited 26/06/11 03:33 AM by rab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chippa Slippery when dry Donating Members 368 Member For: 17y 5m 28d Gender: Male Location: Foot Hills W.A Posted 26/06/11 05:34 AM Author Share Posted 26/06/11 05:34 AM (edited) Righto culprit found.....After removing shroud from around the column and checking the connections on the backs of the contact points I then removed the plastic backing from the indicator stork where the wires grove up to the switch (auto,park,lights)this is what I found...http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x33/chippinunna/DSC03156.jpg Edited 26/06/11 05:42 AM by chippa 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chippa Slippery when dry Donating Members 368 Member For: 17y 5m 28d Gender: Male Location: Foot Hills W.A Posted 26/06/11 05:58 AM Author Share Posted 26/06/11 05:58 AM (edited) As you can see the red wire has been cut in two there really isn't enough length in the wire when the indicator stork is positioned to the left it stretches the wire and in turn becomes pinched up a bit.....so all soldered up now and fixed.... Edited 26/06/11 06:07 AM by chippa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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