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| SKL1 |
 Jun 26 2014, 09:04 AM
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Here comes the rant- the electrical issues are driving me nuts.
Other than putting the car back together (and everything worked when I dissassembled it) I put in a JWest fuse panel. When first bringing the car back to life with a battery, many things are NOT working. Headlight motors have power as I can raise them by turning the little knobs until the lights go thru a cycle, but they don't go up with the light switch. Also, no headlights, just parking lights. At first, emergency flashers and turn signals worked, now the flasher just makes a horrible buzzing sound, and the signals flash at about double speed. Also, bench test shows starter is fine, but when in car, nothing happens when turning igntion switch. Also, shorting the starter with screw driver doesn't activate it. Oh, and the light in the top of left gauge continues to flash whenever ignition is on- I think that's warning for brakes- E brake is off, and wiring to master cylinder is connected, though there is no blade connector on it for the ground... And NO fog lights... Have NEW ground strap from tranny to body and battery to body... I have NO idea even where to START!! I've been working on these cars for over 40 years, and HATE electrical issues!!! |
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| bandjoey |
Jun 26 2014, 09:08 AM
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bandjoey Group: Members Posts: 4,935 Joined: 26-September 07 From: Bedford Tx Member No.: 8,156 Region Association: Southwest Region |
How bout pull all the fuses and put them back one at a time to test that circuit? Possibly pos/grounds reversed on the bottom of the panel? I'm no electrical genie so I'd do this first.
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SKL1 FRUSTRATED! Electrical issues! Jun 26 2014, 09:04 AM
stugray loosen the JWest fuse panel and let it hang.
If t... Jun 26 2014, 09:21 AM
JWest As mentioned in email, the starter circuit does no... Jun 26 2014, 11:19 AM SKL1 I doubt it is the panel itself (not trying to bla... Jun 26 2014, 11:30 AM damesandhotrods Electrical problems are usually at the connections... Jun 26 2014, 11:38 AM stugray
Just relaying info from other threads:
"Th... Jun 26 2014, 12:39 PM Spoke
Here comes the rant- the electrical issues are dr... Jun 26 2014, 01:59 PM Tom I didn't see if this was your 71 or 73. If it ... Jun 26 2014, 02:22 PM damesandhotrods A good start would be to print out a copy of the s... Jun 26 2014, 04:44 PM cwpeden And the Current Flow Diagram helps too.
Choose f... Jun 26 2014, 05:17 PM toolguy Make sure all your grounds are good is a starting ... Jun 26 2014, 06:07 PM SKL1 thanks for the suggestions guys- all good.
I... Jun 26 2014, 07:12 PM swooshdave
have an old Penske voltmeter from the '70... Jun 29 2014, 11:49 PM dadaDaveed I went through similar troubleshooting pains recen... Jun 26 2014, 09:33 PM SKL1 Well... I decided to start with the starter circui... Jun 29 2014, 07:34 PM Dave_Darling Remove that one bulb. Chances are you put the wro... Jun 29 2014, 10:23 PM damesandhotrods You’re going to need 12 volts going from the bat... Jun 30 2014, 01:52 AM SKL1 Definitely using proper dual filament front bulbs.... Jun 30 2014, 05:59 PM |
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