Re: High beam indicator location?

Posted by Packard Newbie On 2019/4/30 1:07:51

Thanks Howard, I'll take a picture tomorrow of my speedo face and post it. The ONLY 'hole' or orifice I can see in the dial face is right at the very top, near the chrome ring and it looks (to me, anyway) too high on the dial and too small to be the indicator lens. It sure would be nice if someone with a '39 would weigh in with positive identification of the location and colour of the high beam indicator. What you are saying makes sense, and I can see there is a cylindrical 'collar' going from the inside of the bulb socket hole to the dial face, but I can't detect anything in there that is amiss or blocking the light. I have a small probe camera and I am going to see if that can shed any light on things tomorrow. Notwithstanding, I am looking at removing the speedometer from the car which is a fairly big job and, in as much as I don't intend on doing a lot of night driving with the car, I am not going to fight that fight right now. I must say I do find it very frustrating and maddening to spend all the time I did today supposedly 'getting to the bottom' of the problem, only to find out that it made zero difference. My money says the light was probably working all along! It just has no way of illuminating through the dial face, and I find that quite strange and totally unexpected!! Much blue air today.....