<VV> Taillight Re: Deep Breath Time

[FrankCB]

Mike,
     Thanks for the excellent advice.
Regarding your "bad ground" on the taillight, Corvairs depend on good electrical contact between the taillight housing and the sheet metal where it snaps in the body.  If you're getting erratic operation of this light (sometimes it lights, sometimes it doesn't) that erratic connection is probably where the problem lies.  You can unsnap the housing and try bending some of the tabs just a SLIGHTLY outward to improve the contact and make sure there's clean metal on the body where the housing snaps in.  Or, you can take the drastic step of replacing the stock housing with one that Ford uses which is almost the same, EXCEPT it includes an extra ground wire from the housing that can be directly attached to the car body with a sheet metal screw.  Hopefully you won't have to go THAT far!<GGG>
     Frank "stock is a good beginning" Burkhard

In a message dated 09/09/09 00:22:06 Eastern Daylight Time, mvjacobi at comcast.net writes:
I've been reading the increasingly hostile remarks among guys who are pretty 
much all great people.  And it's troubling to me (and I suspect many others) 
that the discussion has devolved into name calling and character assination. 

Hey, I am pleased that so many good people feel so strongly about our hobby. 
But in humbly suggest that it is time for all of us to take a deep breath, 
have a tall cold iced tea, have a ride in our favorite car, and agree that 
we can disagree without being disagreeable. 

The question of mandatory Corsa membership would best be solved by those who 
feel strongly one way or the other, to run for and get elected to the BOD. 
It's how we select our government, it should work for our hobby too. 

If you want to cuss at something, drop by and help me track down the @#!^& 
bad ground in my 63 Monza's left taillight.  There'll be cuss words enough 
for all. 

Mike in Michigan