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44824 djupstrom 
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 Topic: 62 Rambler classic fuse panel cat findPosted: Sep/23/2012 at 8:21pm |
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i cant locate my fuse panel ive own the car for going on 3 years now and still nothing im just working on trebuilding the motor so if i could get help that would be great.
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pacerman
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Posted: Sep/23/2012 at 8:41pm |
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There's no fuse panel. Several of the circuits (actually I think all of the lighting circuits) are powered through the headlight switch which one or two circuit breakers built into it. The I think there is a separate inline breaker for the turnsignal switches. There is an inline fuse for the radio I think . There may be others. Joe
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44824 djupstrom
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Posted: Sep/23/2012 at 9:15pm |
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now what about the wiper motor
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Posted: Sep/24/2012 at 2:57am |
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Vaccum I suppose ?
Open, clean, grease it, change the eventual dead reeves with a piece of rubber from a bike tire and a pop rivet, close and forget it for the next 10 years :) |
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No more car :)
Maybe a 1965 Ambassador Coupé someday .. If I can find a cheap one. |
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Posted: Sep/25/2012 at 5:26pm |
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I made a post about the wiper motor already. At 40-50 years old the thing needs replacing (rebuilding) already! The open and grease thing works with a 20-30 year old motor, but in my experience it won't last another 10 years -- ONE, maybe two. The seal on the "flapper" can't be easily replaced. It's leather, not rubber, but the real problem is that the flapper has a valve or two in it. If they are bad or not reassembled correctly the motor will no longer work. The guys who rebuild them replace the flapper assembly, I don't think they attempt to rebuild it, but maybe they just replace those valves too...
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Posted: Sep/25/2012 at 8:51pm |
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About this vacuum wiper, I ve always wondered what the guys had smoked or drink before using the strange bolts keeping the 2 parts together.
I ve never seen this kind of screw on anything else. They are a pain to unscrew, until you make a dedicated tool, from a dead screwdriver, rod bar or anything else and a Dremel. I ve been driving my Ambo as a daily for about 4 or 5 years , and even in winter snow in Canada, it WORKS. Grease make miracles. Edited by nali - Sep/25/2012 at 8:53pm |
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No more car :)
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farna
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Posted: Sep/26/2012 at 12:07pm |
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You've got a good motor that may have been rebuilt at some point -- or did YOU replace the leather gasket around the "flapper" with rubber? I'll reiterate the main problem with that -- the valve in the flapper can go bad or not be reassembled correctly. If it leaks or doesn't work the motor won't. The valve switches vacuum from one side to the other as the flapper reaches one side or the other of the housing.
I agree with you about those screws! Think of them as 1930s "star" bits... Only qualified mechanics would buy the special tools to work on them. A pair of pliers will work, many of us have done that, but making a tool sure would be a big help. |
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Posted: May/18/2013 at 10:06pm |
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If its the fuse panel you need, I believe it is up under the dash to the left of the steering wheel, it is way up in there. That is where it was on my 1964. I had to lay on my back with a flashlight to find the darn thing.
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Posted: May/19/2013 at 7:11am |
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There is no fuse panel on the 62 Classic. There is a circuit breaker, but it's not part of the headlight switch. The breaker is a rectangular metal box a bit smaller than the turn signal flasher. It should be close to the flasher. Five or six circuits are fed from it. The light switch has a built-in circuit breaker for the light circuits.
63 was the first year a small fuse panel was used. |
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