Weeeiirrdddd
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Weeeiirrdddd
So while i'm driving the corvette yesterday i noticed my signal flashers are not working... must be a burnt out flasher fuse.... and for the longest time my radio hasn't been working well at all (sounded soo bad) So i pulled my flasher fuse out and this other resistor type thing fell out with it that looks kind like a battery with two wires comming out of eachside.. i have no idea what it is so i didn't put it back in.. now for some reason my flashers work again, and my radio sounds amazing!!!I'm guessing that resistor was a noise static supresspor or something, does anyone know what it could be and what it does.. ? i think the last owner put it in 12 years ago?!?!
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Re: Weeeiirrdddd (Justin79-L-82)
this other resistor type thing fell out with it that looks kind like a battery with two wires comming out of eachside.. i have no idea what it is so i didn't put it back in.. now for some reason my flashers work again, and my radio sounds amazing!!!!
JB
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From: My own state of mind
Re: Weeeiirrdddd (JB)
Drop it and run!!! That's alien technology, my friend. Your car's been abducted. :D
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Re: Weeeiirrdddd (Justin79-L-82)
So i pulled my flasher fuse out and this other resistor type thing fell out with it that looks kind like a battery with two wires comming out of eachside..
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Re: Weeeiirrdddd (Justin79-L-82)
I agree, sounds like one of those "JackKnife Johnny" resistor gone bad scenarios. Get your BFH out and walk over to your bench and lay the big "SmackDown" on it, and that’s the bottom line Stone Cold!! :lol: :lol:
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Re: Weeeiirrdddd (Armstrong)
Yea I think it was the FLUX Capacitor!!! :eek: :D :jester
Well, the capacitor was probably keeping the flasher from getting good contact.
LOL, but it still could be aliens.
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Re: Weeeiirrdddd (Justin79-L-82)
I have the same thing, and my signals don't work either. They just stopped. I tried taking it apart, but i can't disconnect it :eek: Looks like bubba jammed it in good :crazy:
If you find out what it is, let me know if I can smash it too. Just bought a new hammer and looking for things to smash :smash: :smash: :smash:
If you find out what it is, let me know if I can smash it too. Just bought a new hammer and looking for things to smash :smash: :smash: :smash:
Pro
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Re: Weeeiirrdddd (Justin79-L-82)
There was one of those in my 81 when I bought it, and I always thought it was a stock thing. It doesn't seem to change anything if it's in there or not, so I've just left mine in.
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Re: Weeeiirrdddd (Justin79-L-82)
Maybe it's a flux capacitor like in Back to the Future. Maybe you can travel through time! :lol: Have you ever hit 77 mph (or was it 88?) and then been somewhere/sometime else? :jester
