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Subject:Re: Eric Caron is on the road!
From:David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Date:Mon, 24 Jun 2013 12:32:02 -0400

At 12:05 PM 6/24/2013, OlRivrRat wrote:
>"STOP AT ONCE if the oil pressure warning light comes on while
>driving. (Brake warning light also comes on due to design of
>electrical system. In case of brake failure, only the brake warning
>light will come on.)

That would seem to be a leftover in the manual from the air-cooled
design, where the brake warning light was tied to the oil pressure
light as a bulb check.  In the waterboxers they tied it to the engine
starting circuit instead.

My '89 manual *still* gives totally wrong spec for taillight bulbs,
unchanged from the '84 manual.

Yrs,
d

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