RE: Dash lights? replacement and sources?

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <000501be6590$50ac07a0$1db935cf@WWICS.wwics.com> "Dan Sinclair" writes:

> Are you sure it's the bulb?  On my car, I have to activate the check system
> by sticking a fuse in the fuel pump relay.  I tried it a dozen times and
> nothing happened - no light on the dash.  Finally I noticed that there was
> only one contact in the relay socket (i.e. the fuse wasn't completing the
> circuit cause only one blade was touching anything).  I think the previous
> owner/mechanic must have put the fuse in crooked and broken one of the
> contacts in the relay.  I changed the fuel pump relay with a different unit
> and bingo - check engine light fired up.  Something to look at if you have
> the same setup.

I have also seen 'scale models' of the fuel pump relay with the socket
but no pins on the bottom.  They're a yellowish colour and only very
slightly bigger than normal FP relays.

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