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Electrical Tech / Re: Lamp out/Flash to pass issue
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I know that sounds like you will need three hands .

What with all the other interior stuff that's been popping up on this car, I need 7.

New front windshield on Friday.  I've been fighting (and losing) to a small leak during heavy rains.  It's time to pull the glass.  I noticed some delamination around the top edge. May as well replace it.  Already took all the trim off along with the wiper arms, cleaned up the upper channel, and have all new clips ready to go.  After that I get to reskin the headliner.  The new sun visors I want to use have a smaller mount footprint. 

22 years of owning this car.  I think over that time It's ran great and looked great at the same time for about 4 of them.  It's usually one or the other.  It's never run better than right now.  Figure out how it looks.....
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Electrical Tech / Re: Lamp out/Flash to pass issue
I'd be up for measuring the voltage.  I gotta pull the cluster again anyway (magically my parking brake light has decided to tell me it hates me by THAT bulb going out....)so I'll be playing dash bezel commando again.  May as well....


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Electrical Tech / Re: Lamp out/Flash to pass issue
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I am guessing you have one lamp out warning light.

Correct

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I think you should have had the warning light from day one.

When the issue popped up about a year after the swap, I had the same thought.

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Maybe the warning light bulb socket has gotten crusty over the years and just starting working again.

The bulb rests in a twist lock which inserts into the bottom left on the full digital cluster.  Looking at the tabs on the twist lock it appears and FEELS as if there's more play in that particular one than the others on the cluster.  Perhaps it just fully seated after a bump.  I have other spares in better shape. 

Now that you mention it, there were times where before the swap I have had a bulb out and the indicator DID NOT light up.
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Drivetrain Tech / Re: 87 5.0 aod wont shift out of 2nd gear
The stock style input shaft on an AOD is a 2 piece (inner and outer).

The OP mentioned it wasn't slipping and missing 3rd, but rather just staying in second.

My money is on the inner input shaft being hosed.
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Electrical Tech / Re: Lamp out/Flash to pass issue
I had someone tell me that perhaps one of the diodes got weak in one of the LEDs.  He also suggested swapping one at a time to see which and also suggested starting with the rear.


As far as the hi-beam issue; I'm a gigantic idiot.  I was digging through my copy of the 87 shop manuals last night.  Came across a diagram that showed how the autolamp/autodim tie into the headlamps.  After that I went to the car to make sure they were both in the off position. 


Suffice to say my original multifunction switch is fine and the hi-beams are working. I did however find an NOS one for sale at a local dealer on their parts website.  I ordered it to add to the "box of many Cougar parts"

The aftermarket switch is in fact bad according to the shop manual tests.  Guess I'll be returning that.
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Electrical Tech / Lamp out/Flash to pass issue
Got a weird issue that popped up almost 2 months ago.....

--Parking lights on causes lamp out light to come on
--Headlights on causes lamp out light to come on
--With no parking lights/headlights on stepping on the brake pedal lamp out light to come on
--With no parking lights/headlights on using the turn signal will cause the lamp out light to come on and then go out with every illumination of the turn signal. 
--With no parking lights/headlights on pulling the hazard light switch will cause the lamp out light to come on and then go out with every illumination of the hazard lights. 

The flash to pass function has also stopped working.  This occurred at the same time If I hold the turn signal stalk back the brights will stay illuminated. 

I'll preface this with the fact that I did an ENTIRE LED bulb swap on the car and there were no issues for MONTHS.  I swapped over to LED in October/November of 2018.

Today I swapped out the turn signal switch only to find the one I received is apparently bad because the brights are stuck on no matter what I do.  I swapped the old switch back in for now.  I know there's a circuit breaker in the fuse panel for the flash to pass function, but it also correlates to the horn which works.  Ignition switch is approximately 2 years old and looks good and doesn't get warm or anything like that....

Thoughts?
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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars WANTED / Re: 87-88 Thunderbird headliner
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