FRUSTRATED! Electrical issues! |
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FRUSTRATED! Electrical issues! |
SKL1 |
Jun 26 2014, 09:04 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,605 Joined: 19-February 11 From: north Scottsdale Member No.: 12,732 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
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!!! |
SKL1 |
Jun 29 2014, 07:34 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,605 Joined: 19-February 11 From: north Scottsdale Member No.: 12,732 Region Association: Upper MidWest |
Well... I decided to start with the starter circuit- measured 12.8 volts to starter but trying to short across the battery lead and blade did nothing but some sparks. The brand new hi-torque starter works perfectly with a bench test.
Even though I figured it wouldn't help I put in a NEW cable from battery to starter. Same results... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) When first putting back together, E flashers and turn signals worked fine. Then one front bulb went out- replaced it. Now the flasher relay makes this god awful noise, the flashers and turn signals now don't work. Parking lights all work fine. Do the E-flasher relays just go bad like that? I can see replacing the flasher relay will probably do nothing, and just piss me off even more... I'm beginning to lose my mind! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/screwy.gif) |
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