Re: GTV-6 taillight boards

[GLewis4457@domain.elided]

In a message dated 5/5/99 12:58:17 AM Central Daylight Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:

> My '85 had similar problems - I found that some of the biggest culprits are
>  the small metal rivets that connect the bulb holders to the circuit board.
>  Corrosion here caused high resistance between the holder & CB.  I
>  eventually solved this by using a dremel tool to clean the metal and the
>  surrounding copper circuit board, then soldering the rivet directly to the
>  circuit board.  

I have GTV-6 taillights installed on my Alfetta.  Similar to this, but I 
drilled out the rivets and cleaned around the contact points and then 
reinstalled them using pop rivits.  this worded well.  Also, check the 
ground.  The GTV-6 uses a "pass through" ground to the passenger side light 
and then a common ground for the whole system.  Check and make sure that 
ground is very clean.  I also installed a second ground off of the drivers 
side board.  Use of one of those contact lubricants would also seem like a 
good idea even though I have not done this.  Seems to have worked for me over 
the last couple of years.

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