Re: park lights,etc

[John Eklund <johne@domain.elided>]

>1. in the Park position with the ignition OFF, only one light front and rear
>should be on (drivers side).  On mine I also have the pax side taillight.  I
>thought I had a problem with the pax side front parking light not being on,
>but evidently not.

No that's not right. in the Park position with the ignition OFF all parker
lights should be on. If you have only one side on its because a fuse has
blown. It's the same fuse that lights the panel.

john


>2.  In the park position with the ignition ON, all of the side marker lamps
>should be on plus F and R park lamps drivers and pax side plus the instrument
>lamps?  On mine I also have the rear license plate illumination lamps, but I
>do not have either the L or R front side marker lamps.  Should they be on?
>3.  I sure wouldn;t have thought that the taillamps would be on only on one
>side, so I must ask a question that I thought I knew the answer to:
>Are the front side marker lamps supposed to flash with the turn signals?  My
>left one does, but not the right.  Which one is wrong?  A friend of mine had
>a '66 Olds 98 that did this.  Of course the fenders were so large that these
>lamps actually illuminated the side of the road alittle bit so you could see
>what you were turning into.
>
>This list has really been a big help in putting my car back together; thanks
>alot.
>Frank M.
>'72 Stag getting closer to running all the time