70 - 2800CS - 2270111 restoration - ode to the past

[tdgray]

Not a whole lot of pictures of anything interesting.

Been back to work on the inside while the weather sucks and I don't want to open the doors.

Got the doors back together with internals. And got all the windows working. Still rocking the tuna cans... Hey... They work.. pokey but they work.

Back drivers needs adjusted. I must have accidently messed with the up- stop when I cleaned everything... Needs to go up a bit more. Also have a weird thing with the switch. Armrest switch works fine... Front switch will only go up... Not down.

 

[tdgray]

Engine is still a work in progress.... Lots to do in there.

 

[tdgray]

Oh and I got the new outside mirror mounted… big improvement over the POS that was on there.

 

[tdgray]

Only real problem I ran into this weekend is that the driver side door handle mechanism (inside flapper part) is bent and the handle does not line up well. I tried to bend it back but was afraid to go too far as the metal seemed a bit brittle.

I’ll look for a replacement.

 

[rsporsche]

send me a pic of what you need, i will check to see if i have one.

 

[tdgray]

I am having a hell of a problem with my turn signals. Ran through everything yesterday as I have for a week. There was a minor hiccup that I didn’t notice… the ones where you feel like an idiot when you find it.

Everything was working awesome… went to tidy everything up. Tie up cables etc. only to find it doesn’t work again. Hazards are fine but I have low power to the Green- Yellow wire at the turn signal switch. Switched flashers… no such luck. Has to be something grounding the GR GE wire or something similar but I’ll be damned if a I can locate anything.

Any ideas from the peanut gallery???

 

[ScottAndrews]

You might check the hazard switch itself. This switch is rather complicated for a few reasons. 1) it uses a single flasher for both turn signals and hazard lights;2 the true signals only work in ACC/RUN, but the hazards work even if the ignition is OFF. So the hazard switch is a hub where all four turn signal lamps converge, the ACC/RUN bus and the BATT bus land, and the turn signal switch signals land. On the earlier cars they made this even more complicated by sharing the wipe wash function with the turn signal switch...

I'd start by checking to see if one of the wire contacts inter hazard switch got dislodged. The low voltage at the green yellow wire may be some sort of leakage through some part of the switch.

On my 635, which has a similar setup, I once woke up to music playing at 3 AM. I got up thinking I woudl go reprimand the kids (we had 4 teenagers in the house at the time). I finally traced the music to the garage.. Hmm. So I discover that even though my car ignition is off. the radio is playing, and all of the dash lights were on. Turned out that the hazard switch has internally shorted the ACC/RUN bus to the BATT bus, thereby effectively turning on the car. The only way to stop this was to either remove a fuse, or to disconnect the hazard switch...

 

[tdgray]

Good thought Scott… good thought. I double check the switch itself. IIRC I had to “fix the tab” quite a while ago.