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Re: GTV-6 taillight boards
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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