Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Blinky lights

[Matt Boyd (ferrari308driver]

Grahame,

I apologize for not reading and chiming in earlier -- this was my
problem on my 308 once, too. I fixed it and it has held since then.
Good luck!

-Matt
'85 308

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Grahame Reinthal
<grahame [at] reinthal.com.au> wrote:
> Well, changing the relays, checking all the fuses and cleaning up all those
> connections did not fix the problem, but now I have a few spare relays! ;-)
> I was getting quite confused with what was going on, because it seemed
> somewhat random and did not seem to exactly fit with what I have read in the
> FChat archives and so on.
>
>
>
> Anyway, frustrated, I popped in to see Russ (a great Ferrari technician) who
> in less than a minute had isolated the likely problem. As we twisted the
> light switch at the end of the stalk through its normal 90 degrees,
> connection was being made and then lost, with lights popping up then down.
>
>
>
> Five minutes later, with the switch pulled apart, we could see the problem -
> a little green earth wire had broken loose so that it was only making
> passing connection as the switch was twisted. So, a bit of solder, a little
> bit of a clean-up of connections while in there and it all works perfectly
> now. Success!!
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Grahame
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