Electrical Instruments - Cadillac 60 Series 1963 Shop Manual

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ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
3. Remove wire from plastic clips along upper
flange of rear bumper.
4. Remove two reflex attaching screws r e -
taining reflex and remove reflex.
5. Remove two s c r e w s holding retaining
ornament.
6. Remove two remaining nuts securing lamp
assembly to bumper and remove complete lamp
assembly and escutcheon from bumper opening.
b. Installation
1. Install lamp assembly and escutcheon in
bumper opening and secure to bumper with two
retaining nuts.
2. Install two ornament attaching screws.
3. Install reflex by retaining with two attaching
screws.
4. Guide wire along upper flange of rear
bumper and secure under plastic clips.
5. Tighten bumper mounting bolts, making cer-
tain that bumper is properly aligned.
6. Connect feed wire. Connect license lamp.
53. Tail and Stop Light Assembly
Removal and Installation (Fender)
a. Removal
1. Disconnect feed wire from plastic connector
in trunk.
2. Remove two lens retaining screws and r e -
move lens.
3. Remove screw retaining t o p of light to
fender.
4. Working inside trunk, remove nuts retaining
tail assembly to fender and remove assembly
from fender opening.
b. Installation
1. Working inside trunk, install nuts retaining
light assembly to fender.
2. Secure screw retaining top of light to fender.
3. Install lens and secure with two screws.
4. Connect feed wire at plastic connector in
trunk.
54. Cornering Light
Removal and Installation
a. Removal
1. Raise f r o n t end of car a n d turn wheel
outward.
2. Disconnect cornering light wire (orange)
from underhood harness connector.
3. Remove one screw from front and two nuts
from bottom securing cornering light assembly
to mounting brackets, and remove cornering lamp.
b. Installation
1. Position cornering light in fender opening
and secure with one screw and two nuts.
2. Connect cornering light wire to underhood
harness connector.
Limiting Coil
Ignition
Switch
•Indicator Pointer
Fuel Gage Dash Unit
20 OHM
Resistance
^Operating Coil
Battery -JL
Sliding Brush
Float Unit Resistance
-v Float
Filter /
Fuel Gage Tank Unit
Fig. 12-65 Fuel Gage Circuit
ELECTRICAL INSTRUMENTS
55. Fuel Gage Service
When checking a fuel gage, first determine
whether the unit or the wiring is at fault. To
check for a defective tank unit, disconnect dash
unit to tank unit brown wire at connector inside
license plate mounting door. Connect a known
good tank unit to wire from dash unit. See
Fig. 12-65.
With ignition switch "On", the tester arm
should be moved from "full" to "empty" position.
If dash unit then works correctly, old tank unit is