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Cigarette Lighter
I can rebuild an engine, but I don't understand how cigarette lighters work. They get hot and pop out, right? Well, mine pops out just before it gets hot enough. Are there some tabs I can bend or something, to get it to stay in longer and get orange-hot?
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08-24-2006, 03:40 PM
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Quit smoking, it lower the resale of your car.
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08-24-2006, 03:51 PM
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Jim - just pick up a new one from Wayne. I think they're sort of inexpensive. IMO, the lighter is just one of those low-tech things that aren't worth fussing over.
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08-24-2006, 03:55 PM
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Ruf, nobody else is going to own this car.
dd, do I know that the part that is out of spec is the part that gets replaced?
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Just checked. The "element" is $17.75. The "insert" is nearly fifty dollars and the "assembly" is more than eighty.
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08-24-2006, 04:17 PM
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Superman,
If the 911 is similar to the dozens of other car cigarette lighters I've seen, here's the procedure for repairing them: If you remove the lighter from the socket, inside the socket you should see two, possibly four tabs running vertically. If it has four, two of them are used to hold the lighter in place when it's not depressed. The other two (or the two if it has only two) determine how hot the element gets before the lighter pops out. They’re made by joining two different types of metal with different rates of thermal expansion. They're oriented so that as they heat they bend outward, releasing the lip at the end of the lighter and letting it pop. To set it so the element gets hotter before it pops, with a flathead screwdriver bend these tabs slightly and evenly toward the inside of the socket. To set it so it pops sooner, bend them outward. It will take a few tries to get it just right. Be sure to let the element cool off between adjustments or the results will be skewed. Also, most importantly be sure to disconnect the battery before sticking a screwdriver in the socket. Hope that helps.
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