[DaveBoettcher]

Hi Lapponia,

Good thought about cleaning electrical contacts. I cleaned all the contacts in the rear light clusters and applied copper grease to them - no more dodgy brake lights!

Back to the DME relay, as we don't have access to a scope, we could look for the problem we are trying to cure - the arcing across the relay contacts. I imagine that if we tried a standard relay on the car without its can, perhaps in the dark, we might be able to see the flash of the arc when the relay opens. Might need to use a small mirror like a dentists mirror to see the contacts clearly. If we can see this flash, and then we try a modified relay and don't see the flash, then we know the modification is working.