License plate and dash lights on with key on, but lheadlight switch in the off position |
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License plate and dash lights on with key on, but lheadlight switch in the off position |
HalfMoon |
Jun 23 2014, 07:50 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 828 Joined: 13-November 12 From: Shenandoah Junction, WV Member No.: 15,144 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
I started my car tonight and noticed despite the headlight switch being fully in the off position, my dash lights are on and my license plate light is .
Odd. Never saw that before. Headlight switch I imagine.... Thoughts? David Addedum-and saw what I thought was a wisp of smoke come from under my dash at the windshield....perhaps my imagination? |
HalfMoon |
Jul 1 2014, 01:28 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 828 Joined: 13-November 12 From: Shenandoah Junction, WV Member No.: 15,144 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
Working on an assumption that each component wire from the load side of the back of fuse position 8 can be tested by probing each wire individually with a ohm meter and then connecting the ohm meter ground wire to a ground source would provide useable data, this is what I found.
Of those four wires all but one showed zero. The one (pictured) that had a value of 1 ohm appears to be red with a white stripe (I'm extrememly color blind, so this is a guess). Sadly the one right next to it also appears red with a white stripe.... On the schematic they appear to connect to component 63 Fresh air fan and component 30 Fan switch. The other two wires go to 56 and 59 wiper motor and cigarette lighter respectively (and remember they are zero ohm). My car is a v-8 converted, so I have neither fan or fan switch as both had been removed many years ago before I obtained the car. The current problems had not existed during my ownership rather they have just now occured (with the exception of the high side wiper not working despite ability to work when hotwired which has always been a thorn in my side). I'm guessing that the wire with an indication of resistence is mebbe somewhere touching a ground source? Neither is actually hooked up to a component....so a broken wire or somehow grounding? Or....that the other three wires showing zero are not supposed to show zero and I need to trace each one of those wires All of the above are supisitions from a complete knob however and so could easily be wrong way Wilson. See the photo and say something :-) |
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