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Old Jan 13, 2025 | 01:40 PM
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Fooling with a small winter project, I got some Lectric Limited repro T3s and am fixing the FO light monitor, some don't work at all.

Noooooooooooo... you can't fix a broken fiber optic cable by 'twisting the little wires together'.

I'm surprised he didn't use a wire nut. Stupid is as stupid does.



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Old Jan 13, 2025 | 02:17 PM
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That's a good one!
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Made me chuckle!
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Old Jan 13, 2025 | 04:49 PM
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I can see no reason why that repair wouldn't work.
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Old Jan 13, 2025 | 06:28 PM
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mine was repaired with those blue splice in ones that clip together when you squeeze then with some pliers....they didnt work to well either
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Old Jan 13, 2025 | 10:21 PM
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That's obviously going to leak everywhere. (why are there E.T fingers inside the car?)
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didn't squeeze hard enough ....................
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Old Jan 14, 2025 | 07:05 AM
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That's good question.

Off putting to say the least. I'll put my coffee down and grab a flashlight and a .45 and go take a look........
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iPhone 16 Pro and that is a disturbing friggin' artifact.Those are my fingers subjected to some sort of IOS interpretive weirdness I fail to appreciate.

Have to watch out for that ... body parts showing up in car pics can make for some odd Craigslist ads......
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No, I don't happen to have a bucket of human fingers laying about. Out of stock at the moment.
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Made me chuckle too. The morons who cut my fiber optic cables just stripped about a 1/4" inch off each of the loose ends, laced the ends together best they could, and wrapped them together with electrical tape. Nice splice if these would have been 12 small wires. I'm sure glad they didn't try to solder the ends together.

Fortunately, they cut through the entire wire bundle above the LH muffler, I'm guessing while replacing the stock mufflers with Flow Master mufflers, so they got lots of practice splicing that day. It's hard to fake stupid.
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I wonder what other little surprises the P.O. left for you to find...
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My 73 had the coax radio antennae cable cut, but Bubba fixed it with a piece of electrical tape. You know that Electrical tape can fix anything!
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I see your cats bubba fix and I’ll raise you mine. My car has wire splice connectors to “ fix” the fiber optics.
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Wow! 😂
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It would have worked if the guy had used Gorilla tape!!!
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