Re: [Amc-list] Replacing dashboard light?

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Does it have switches in the jambs?
If so and you want to replace them it is kind of a pain as from what I have found there are no easy to fit interchanges out there. The hole is too big and the modern equivilents all thread in.
  I alwasy keep an eye out for good Rambler switches and grab them when I see them!
In my American I have one from and American I parted out that works, I parted out 3 cars and adding the count for my car being car number four that makes ONE good switch from four cars!  The second switch is wired different, but fit the same size hole. It came from the 990H flood Ambassador.  
   I will not have two good switches for the convertible when it is done.  I'm thinking since it is a ground up rebuild I will likely go aheand and fit it's jambs for thread in switches that I will be able to get! I never thought about it while doing the American or it too would have had the holes welded up and resized for better switch availability.

   Anyone know of an easy to get swithc that does fit?

  On a last note, the factory switches are a crapy design too, the metal in the contacts it to thin and they easily wear out or distort and if you try to bend them to work they often break off.

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
" I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens! "

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: WILLIAM SERCKIE <realtorbill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Funny...on my 1965 American, the dome light works via the headlight switch but 
> not when the doors are opened...
> 
> 
> Bill Serckie
> Coldwell Banker Real Estate & Mortgage Services
> 2 River Place Suite "K"
> Lansing, IL 60438
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> --- On Sat, 10/11/08, Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Amc-list] Replacing dashboard light?
> To: "AMC/Rambler owners, drivers and fans." <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Saturday, October 11, 2008, 3:44 PM
> 
> Bruce Griffis wrote:
> 
> > So, I'm thinking it's probably just a light behind the dash
> somewhere.
> > How do I figure which light is for the speedometer / dashboard? How do
> > I get at it? I don't have to do anything goofy like remove the
> > dashboard, do I?
> 
> Lay on the seat with your head on the hump. Slide in so that your head 
> is resting uncomfortably on the pedals. Small 2 AA cell Magligt helps 
> here. Stare at the backside of the dusty gauce cluster PC board and 
> figure out which ones are NOT dash illumination. (eg. GEN and OIL.) Then 
> use the arm you have with three elbows and take each one out and replace 
> them.
> 
> You do have three elbows, right?
> 
> I'm serious about the proceedure otherwise.
> 
> Another way to this is to get your head under there with a ligt and 
> simply stare at everything, then slouched onto the hump, rech your arm 
> under and swap bulbs by feel. THats what I do most of the time. (THe 
> ones to the far side fo the connector are turn signal and upper left 
> llunination, etc.)
> 
> I strongly suggest changing every single bulb -- the funcioning ones are 
> certainly old and metallized inside (the filaments evaporate and grey 
> the glass, and just how many times do you want to do this job??!!
> 
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