Well folks, 5 years after I bought red bumper 67.5 1600 home from auction and after much repair, it went in for road inspection today and
SHE'S LEGAL!
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Not without drama, however... it knew it was going in for inspection and of course, stuff started up...
Horn just quit last night. Ran a jumper to the horn, fine. Metered the relay, voltage where it should be. Pulled apart the horn button on the wheel, all good.
So, pulled the combination switch bullet connectors apart and cleaned and re-connected... BEEP there it is! Whew!
And now all the lights quit: Headlights, markers, taillights, brake lights, dash lights and even the damn map light! Car starts and runs fine. The signals and 4-way hazards work just fine thank you. Grounds seem fine. Getting late, inspection tomorrow... will come back in the morning and have another look.
And sure enough, found it: Fuses looked fine on top, metered continuity with the multimeter ON THE TOP, but underneath where they were clipped in into the fusebox clips they were all nasty and corroded:
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Pulled them out, got new ones. Before installation, I sprayed down the clips with De-Oxit spray and scrubbed with a ScotchBrite pad. Installed new fuses and:
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All with a half hour to go for inspection time. Drove it over to the Nissan dealer down the street, booked it with a senior tech who I've known for years, old 510 racer guy. As I'm bringing it into the shop, horn cuts out again. Tech isn't worried... 'I'll check it out, gotta be something simple'
All the 20somethings at the service desk are 'Woah, what's THAT?' as the red roadster drives into the shop. Hilarious
3 hours later, tech calls: 'Come and get it... she passed and is ready for registration'
What about the horn? I ask... He cut and replaced a bullet connector on a wire from the combo switch that had oxidized inside the wire insulation, explains my intermittent horn.
So now it's to the state i wanted, road legal in pretty much stock form. Have plans and parts for upgrades, but will hold off the rest of this year and shake it down in it's current shape... I predict many small fixits will be cropping up.
New plate tomorrow!