by Nightcheck <Nightcheck@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Sep 18, 2007 at 01:10 PM
On Sep 18, 1:57 am, "Les Benn" <lb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Nightcheck" <Nightch...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>
> news:1190059973.523342.189280@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > Hi - I have an 87 Fiero GT (automatic) in which I was changing my
> > center console and in doing so needed to remove the cigarette lighter.
> > (It always worked - so that's not why I'm posting here).
>
> > Usually when I take something out and/or apart I sketch a diagram or
> > even take a pic of how it should be put back together.. but in this
> > case I didn't. Now I'm
> > having problems on exactly how to reassemble it. At first look, it
> > seems like a no- brainer - but I guess my brain has failed.
>
> > In an event - below is what I need to reassemble :
> > The actual lighter itself (The 1 3/4 inch silver cylinder which the
> > lighter plugs into) and attached one side is a small hollow cylinder
> > about an inch long and next to that is a small 1/2 silver gizmo
> > permanently at ached to the main lighter which is for connecting
> > something to it. At one end of this cylinder is the opening in which
> > the lighter plugs into and the other end has an opening which I don't
> > know what (if anything) goes into there
>
> > There were 3 connections which were attached to this lighter:
> > 1) A single orange wire with a white plastic gizmo at the end which
> > connects
> > to something on the main lighter
> > 2) A single black wire with a plastic end which I think (but certainly
> > not sure)
> > slips into that small 1/2 gizmo attached to the side of the
> > cylinder
> > 3) 2 black wires connected to a small bulb at the end. I'm fairly
> > certain - this pushes into that small 1 3/4 hollow cylinder attached
> > to the side of the main cylinder
> > 4) Finally a small metal connector came off one of the above ( I think
> > it may have been attached to that small 1 3/4 hollow cylinder which is
> > attached to the main cylinder - and then I seem to recall that orange
> > wire (See #1 above)
> > with the plastic connector at the end - slipped into that small metal
> > connector.
>
> > I tried several combinations - but no luck. The fuse is fine as
> > everything else it controls works.
>
> > Can anyone explain what goes where or point me to where I can see a
> > diagram showing each connection and where it goes.
>
> > Thanks so much in advance...
>
> > Sincerely
>
> > NC
>
> I changed mine quite a while ago and don't remember the sequence of
> reassembly. the light is to illuminate the cigarette lighter. the black
wire
> is the ground I am fairly sure.
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Les -
Thanks for the info... I got it working....
