Re: Lucas Dak

From: KARL MOLTZAN (kmoltzan@mymail.net)
Date: Tue Feb 24 1998 - 10:21:13 EST


On Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:15:23 +0000 rbt@frontiernet.net
wrote:

>Well it happened for the second time so I'm not
hallucinating and I can
>only figure my 98 Dak is messing around with that British
car in the garage
>at
>night and picked up "Lucas disease".
>
>I go to signal a right hand turn and I get my wipers
coming on at slow
>speed
>for several cycles in addition to the disired turn
indicator. (of course I
>couldn't
>repeat it "on demand" if my life depended on it!)
>
>It acts like there must be a momentary short to the switch
going to
>the washer button,( but probably only when the steering
wheel is
>positioned "just so" when I signal and only on the last
Monday of the
>month, etc.......)
>
>I'm glad I'm used to this sort of thing by now but I was
kinda hoping
>my car would pick up the good parts of American electrics,
not the
>other way 'round! :-)
>
>By any chance has anyone else seen this? (I won't bother
to bring it
>in unless the dealers know the fix already via a
TSB..fearing it will come
>out
>worse)
>
>
>-BobT. '98 CC Sport+ 4X4 V8 3.55 5sp
>
You may have pushed the end of the control arm in just
enough to activate the mist operation on the wiper. It
will give you two wipes and stop.
 
                       Karl Moltzan
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