Need electrical advise Options

[993inNC]

as I've stated before, I am an electrical ....... dunce. I know the basics and have gone through them and am stumped on where to go from here. Here's where I am. I have half the car pulled apart with regards to wiring. I found the headlight switch to be flaky, but have them working (with pop up function) if I pull the switch just right (ok I'm good with even being there so far). I still have no flashers (have tested the hazard switch and it seems power comes in and goes where its supposed to when actuated (only at the switch though). The blinkers don't work, nor under the guise of the hazzard switch do they work. I have no brake lights and the running lights (next to the back up lights) seem to stay on whether the lights switch is on or not (ignition on).
Also I pulled the front bulbs (looked good) as well as the rear. I pulled the rear housings apart and I when I did, I have lights that come on when they shouldn't, lights that don't come on when they should, and the kicker, if I play with the back up light for instance (push it in harder) all the lights on that side come on (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) clearly something is wrong. Almost seems like I have cross pollinating going on somewhere in the electrical system. Like power is being crossed over to everything but only under certain conditions.

So my Q is......where do I start? Where should I look? Should I scrap the entire harness for either new or refurbed from Pelican (or other)? I was hoping to get this car to where it was driveable while I decide how far to take its reconstruction and since I won't have much time until next summer to do this car right, but this will be a huge setback if I don't get it worked out.

Any guidance will be hugely appreciated.

[r_towle]

I would suggest that you invite a guy over with a 914 so you can run back and forth for an hour.

You wired up the rear lights wrong..that is the first place to fix.
You may have wired up the front blinkers and parking lights wrong also.
Its easy to do wrong and then some things work and others do not.

Rich

[993inNC]

You wired up the rear lights wrong..that is the first place to fix.
You may have wired up the front blinkers and parking lights wrong also.
Its easy to do wrong and then some things work and others do not.

Rich

A) no other 914 guys that I know have stock boxes to compare to.
B ) I had nothing to do with the sh$t wiring. I could have wired it up better than this. No I am the recipient of an "everything works" PO comment for which I believed and am finding not to be true after all. I said I was a dunce not an idiot (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chair.gif) well i suppose believing a seller was a temporary lapse in judgment. Good thing I didn't pay to much for the car (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)