Caution proceed at your own risk!
Well I didn't get any shots of the disassembly but what I had to do was
Dremel around the back side on the inside of the housing to open them up,
then with a 3/16" punch from the bulb side carfully tap out the guts.
This took awhile as to not harm anything.
Here are the inner components.
Lightly filed the solder joints to remove most solder.
If you start to see copper color stop immediately.
I went a little to far, but it turned out o.k..
Removing old wires.
Be carfull because they are rivited in a plastic disc.
I gripped on them with small needle nose visegrip plyers.
You don't want to melt plastic disc.
After desoldering wires I drilled the rivit holes, not to remove
them ,but to open them up to fit new wires.
I believe it was a #43 drill. (.089)
Not positive on drill size,I would start smaller till wire fits.
I used 14 guage prestolite wire.
Here is what it looked like after soldering on new wires.
Reassemble parts.
This is a smaller insulator washer that goes in first.
Be careful not to lose this during disassembly.
After assembly.The rubber washer goes on last.
Pay attention to inner plastic insulator housing,
has a notch to line up with insulator disc.
Use a volt meter to check continuity before adding epoxy.
Epoxy I used. I wouldn't recommend this because it dries so fast. (5 min.)
I would recommend Devcon (30 min.). More working time.
Unfortunately, this is all the "big boxes" carry.
You might find Devcon (30 min.) at a hobby shop if you have one in your area.
Normally this stuff has a 1 year shelf life, so I wouldn't recommend old stuff.
I got the wires ready to go.
I guess you can only add so many attachments so we will continue this later in the week.
Maybe admin can combine.
Warning lights rebuild.
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Re: Warning lights rebuild. Continued
Well I guess you can add attachments in a reply so I'll continue here.
Than added the metal disc and added a little more.
This how mine were originally assembled.
Yours may vary. Than I soldered on new ends.
I heat mine up,fill them with solder,then push my wires in.
Here is how the look after paint.
With lenses.
Thanks to mspeters for offering lenses.
These are smoked red.
"Good luck".
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So then I added a small amount of epoxy on the rubber insulator.Than added the metal disc and added a little more.
This how mine were originally assembled.
Yours may vary. Than I soldered on new ends.
I heat mine up,fill them with solder,then push my wires in.
Here is how the look after paint.
With lenses.
Thanks to mspeters for offering lenses.
These are smoked red.
"Good luck".
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Re: Warning lights rebuild.
Slick work Jerry.
Are you completely rewiring your mite too ?
Are you completely rewiring your mite too ?
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Re: Warning lights rebuild.
Going to try. Ground up restoration.
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