Hi Peter, When you say you 'checked' the grounds, what does that mean?
In my experience, with any older Alfa, you need to do more than just look at them. You need to take them apart, unscrew them, whatever, wire brush them, then treat them with a contact cleaner and preservative. Then reassemble. You should do that for every ground and every connection, including where the light bulbs sit inside the sockets. Finally, I think there may be some connectors in line with the parking lights. My memory is fuzzy, but I think if you trace the wiring back from each corner, maybe a foot or two up stream you'll find a three prong connector. Take those connectors apart, clean the contacts, and plug them back together. It is pretty straight forward. I believe that one fuse powers all of the running lights, so if any of them are working then it means the fuse and column switch are doing their job. So start at each light bulb and work your way backwards. HTH, bs ________________________________ From: Peter Lundquist <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, December 13, 2009 1:53:31 PM Subject: [alfa] 69 GTV running lights ... need troubleshooting help Happy Holidays to all, I am having troubles getting all my running lights to work on my 69 GTV (USA version). The wiring diagram I have, ironically, excludes all parking/running lights. I have left rear tail light, but not the right rear, right rear side marker light but not the left rear side, the left front side marker but not the right. I know, I know, there is a pattern here. Yes, I've checked the: fuses, swapped out suspect bulbs with known good ones, checked the ground on both suspect side lights, the right front turn indicator housing, the left rear tail light assembly (but I must be missing one ground, right?), and nada. The turn indicators work, brake lights work, instrument lights work, and only one license plate light (but I think that is because the other bulb I did not push/twist correctly, so I think that is a bulb issue). The headlights work, but sort of intermittently; only the right front low beam and the left front high beam work. This is the car I've had since 1985 and all the lights worked wonderfully before I took the car off the road to do a bunch of cosmetic work three years ago. So clearly I have done something wrong in reassembling the car. This is particularly frustrating because I just did a similar cosmetic restoration to my 72 Berlina, including converting it to the round 69 side markers and replacing the stock headlight sheet metal with a '71 set up so now the car has inner fog lights and the outer hi/lo beams. And yes all works well on the Berlina. So where have I gone wrong on the GTV? Or, more accurately, what troubleshooting have I not done that I should to do to find the problem? Thanks, Peter Lundquist -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected] -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
