WTB: OE Fog Light

It's the 4-1/2 inch round one, driver's side if they're side specific.

TIA,

Jeff

WTB Wiper arm

Need a right side wiper arm for a 1997 Trans Am.

Mine broke at the stud this weekend in the snow so I need the whole arm.

I might be slow in checking back - no power, heat, or water since last thurs night.

TIA

Jeff

Lighting Gremlins

The Pontiac didn't pass State inspection - right front turn signal wasn't operational. How hard can this be? I replaced the bulb while the tech continued the inspection. Still didn't work. Off to home I go....

I pulled the socket out and tested for 12V. Nothing in the socket, nothing in the wire leading to the socket. (BTW, 12V for the side marker light was present, just not for the turn indicator).

Send in the Gremlins. My wife noticed the left headlight was dim. So tonight I started playing with lights while I sat behind a Van at a stoplight.

Turn headlights on, low beam, both lights look normal. Turn on highbeams - right side headlight acts normal (high beam on), left side goes dim (lets call it half the brightness). Turn off highbeams, right side again acts normal (low beam on), left side looks the same as when the high beams were on (the same half-brightness). Turn on high beams, right side goes to high beam, no change and half-brightness on the left.

Turn the head lights off completely, then back on. Low beams on both sides look normal. Turn on high beams and the same right-side-works-left-side-half-brightness thing happens. Turn head lights off, then on - low beams normal, turn on high beams.......

I'm still behind the Van, the right front turn signal is WORKING!!! (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/banghead.gif) and the left side blinks slowly, at about half the rate of the right side, and has a slight delay before the blinking begins. On the drive home, the left side turn signals quit working all together (judging by the reaction of the car following me and the dash signal light staying solidly lit).

At first I was thinking Turn Signal Switch, but now I'm not so sure. It's been too long and many brain cells lost to senility since I had to really read a schematic. Any suggetions on where to begin troubleshooting? Looks like all the lighting is directed through the DRL module, should I be suspecting it is going bad? Maybe the turn signal switch? I'm thinking Module, or even relay, since the headlight trouble seems to reset once power is removed, but would a relay explain the intermittant turn signals? (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/huh.gif)

Wiring Questions

Seems our model 86 Saab 900T is notorious for having wiring harness issues (85-87), especially in the engine compartment. The isulation gets brittle and cracks/disintegrates leaving sections of harness with exposed conductors and many resulting shorts. I've discovered many such spots on the wife's car.

Replacement harnesses are not easy to come by and a lot of discussion I've seen centers around doing a DIY replacement/rewire of the damaged sections of harness.

Can anyone recommend a wire (insulation type, thickness, gauge) that would be suitable to use in our application and a wire supplier? I'm not concerned about correct color-coding. We just need the car to live a little while longer.

Thanks!

Frank Cooke Collection at auction

Below is a quote from an email one of our local NER members posted to our email list.
I hope some of you find this interesting. Some very impressive automobiles in the collection. Enjoy!

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Growing up in a small town sometimes has benefits not realized until too late. As a kid, I remember a gentleman named "Mr Cooke" visiting my dad now and then and proudly showing off his "newest restore". (Dad worked as a very good auto mechanic in Worcester and was "networking within the business" long before it was popular: no wonder he was also a part-time local politician). Our farm house was just over the town line and a perfect place to stop and motor into the big driveway, turn around, say Hi to Leo & Joan and the kids (me or my sister), and then cruise back into the center of North Brookfield.
Frank Cooke had one of his Steamers flying down Rt 67 like a banshee and past the farm one summer day. I still can recall the steam trail it left.
All too often I would see one of these "old cars" tooling around and have little or no idea what it was all about. Frank Cooke passed away late last year, having been ill for some time. Unfortunately, he left no will, and from what is understood around town, his family is split on how to handle the artifacts and are "forcing" a sale of "stuff", although his son is attempting to retain some control of the restoration business itself.
http://www.osa.org/news/release/02.2006/In...20brookfield%22[/size]

The cool stuff is lot 1000 to 1029 of the online catalog:
http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/p...en=carsusacooke