Saturday afternoon I attended a car show and when I parked and exited my car my tilt away column on my 68 failed to activate. I contributed it to a possible vacuum problem that I would look at later. What I failed to notice was my courtesy lights were also not working. So tonight after work I started to check vacuum lines when I noticed the inside lights were not on. I looked at the 7.5 amp fuse in the fuse box and it was blown. When I went to replace it with a new fuse the tilt away system clicked. But according to the schematic in the shop manual it shows an inline fuse. I plan on taking a closer look tomorrow night to see if there is one under the dash. However both are 7.5 amp and it seems odd that both are on the same circuit. Anyone else ever run into this before?
The tilt away fuse is in a separate fuse holder inline. It’s plugged into the three hole yellow plug, Should be just to the right of the steering column, generally just forward of the ash tray.
Tonight I located the fuse after removing the tilt mechanism. It took me the better part of 40 minutes trying to open the in-line holder. That plastic after 50 plus years just didn’t want to cooperate. When I finally got it apart the fuse was still good. So at this point I’m still curious as to why the tilt powered on when I replaced the fuse for the courtesy lights. ???
I am on the road so I don’t have the shop manual to post the schematic from. However from memory it needs power to both the courtesy lamps and the tilt - away relay in order to function.