Reply to "Erica needs to get hosed....."

OK, that hurt!!! Had to take a couple of days off to let my lower back settle down!!!! Finally back in action today......

Filled cooling system up with water....tomorrow will fire car up and pressurize cooling system to check for leaks at shut off valve.

If that goes good, then can work on filling AC system!

IF that all goes good, then can work on putting the danged dash back in!!! ...and the console....and the seats....and the engine cover and all that...!!! WOW! I may find a car under all of that stuff!

Cleaned my fuses today..... was getting some erratic operation of headlamps and other such stuff....some was due to unplugged connector for turn signal switch! (headlamps popped up when I connected battery and turned on ignition key......WAIT! I never touched the headlamp switch!!!! Surprise!)

Once I figured out that the connector was yet undone....resolved that and normal operation continued....except hi beams were very dim...and one low beam was off....then on...? (What?)

Looked at fuses and some were a bit fuzzy. Cleaned everything up with brass brush. Now I get nice bright lights, strong horn...OK, medium horn....meep meep.... and MY HEATER FAN WORKS!!!!

BUT Lo position is not a positive experience each time. You have to futz with the rocker switch to get things working and then it may stay on or not. High position works fine.

OK TWO QUESTIONS related to all of this......

1) Has anyone ever rebuilt a FAN rocker switch? or at least taken it apart in a non-destructive manner? How'd ya do it?

2) Where is the horn relay? I think there is one mentioned.......in the schematics..... 74 car. Reason I ask is that I want to put a set of late model Crown Vic FIAM horns up front. Meep meeep doesn't get it around here in traffic! You need the "WHAT IN THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING!!!!!????" sort of report from your horns! Plus I think only one is working....! I think the horns would need to operate off of a relay....

The air horns in the Mangusta were fantastic (once properly lubed)!!! I thought Panteras got them also...perhaps that was only early cars??

No smoke from anything today......life is good!

Ciao!
Steve