Re: [AMC-List] 65 Marlin Instrum Bulbs/headlight swtich

[Mark Price <markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Most headlight switches readily interchange with easy to find GM pieces, or is it ford? GM I think. As long asit is a dash mounted switch they are 99.9% interchangeable. Some of the early 70's switches had a feature that allowed the lights to be turned on full without turning on the interior lights. Ironically a feature my 01 Dakota has too. Not that the Dak switch fits the AMC's!
  You can take the switch out and buff the spring lightly with scothbrite and use contact cleaner on it, then a light coat of die-electric grease. Tha grease may cause problems as over time it will attract dust though.
   If your night time vision is getting dim as mine is you can just bypass the rheostat and connect your gauges lights to the parking light circuit.
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Mark Price
markprice242ATadelphia.net
Morgantown, WV


---- Ken Siroonian <KSiroonian@xxxxxxx> wrote: 
> are all the light switches pretty much the same?. Seems I  may have a
> similar issue with the headlight switch of the 79 pacer I am working
> on, you pull the light switch out and the lights come on but when you
> turn the knob for the dash dinner, there seems to be dead spots where
> as the light intensity is supposed to increase it goes dead then
> reappears. If i play with the switch a bit the lights will increase and 
> stay on. wondered if there were contact in it, like a rehostat or
> somehing to clean with tv tuner, wd 40 or something else, instead of
> replacing the swtich, or maybe the contact for it needs to be adjusted? 
> thanks, regards, and HAPPY AMCNEW YEARS. Ken. boston.
> 
> On December 30, 2006 Keith Kubiak wrote:
> 
> > Kent,
> >   Thanks for the advice.  I did pull the light switch out and cleaned 
> the contact point for the variable resistor with a burnishing tool.
> That did help some (no more dead spots).  The light for the center
> console was nice and bright at full illumination, so I wsn't suspecting 
> the light switch since it is on the same circuit (through the light
> switch). Actually, I am not really sure how bright these lights should
> be. I know I wasn't a bright in the 60's, so I am guessing the dash
> lights were a little dimmer than what we are used to today.
> > 
> > Keith
> > Re: [AMC-List] 65 Marlin Instrument Bulbs
> > 
> > Date: Saturday, December 30, 2006 12:57 PM
> > From: KENT ANDERSON <65marlin327@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > When my Marlin popped fuses like candy, I discovered it was the light 
> switch
> > that was shorting out.  Ever since I replaced the switch, my dash
> lights are
> > nice and bright, and no more blown fuses, which means I always have
> tail
> > lights, now, too!  Just a suggestion.  Those things do wear out.
> 
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