Odd smell, '87 5ktqa

[Doyt W. Echelberger]

If you have been traveling with your lights on, it could be the
multifunction switch on the steering column, where the contacts actually
melt the plastic that holds them. I replaced that switch this year, because
the lights failed, and at the autopsy I saw the melted blackened
plastic.  It took a few months for it to totally fail, after the cooked
smell was noticed.

But, it lasted about 13 years, so I guess it is a slow cooker.

That would be my candidate, if you haven't already gone to relayed circuits.

Doyt Echelberger
87 5ktq   217k miles


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At 10:05 AM 1/19/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>I can't really say for sure, but it kind of smells like burning
>leather...any clues?
>
>JC