 Wiring harness smoking when fog lights turned on, First time using the lights — any ideas? |
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| Jett |
 Jul 19 2019, 08:35 PM
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Was taking our newly restored 73 2.0 out for its second attempt and although the car is not dialed in yet (another challenge) we hit a problem when turning on the fog lights. After 1-2 min with the fog lights on it started to smoke and I immediately turned off the switch and it stopped.
I am confident that the harness was good because Jeff restored it. Any ideas what might have happened to cause this? Thanks |
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| IronHillRestorations |
Jul 20 2019, 07:06 AM
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I. I. R. C. Group: Members Posts: 6,719 Joined: 18-March 03 From: West TN Member No.: 439 Region Association: None
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Something isn't connected properly and if you have smoke, your harness is damaged.
Exceptionally difficult to diagnose over the computer. The only way to deal with this is trace down all the wires using a color coded wiring diagram. Sorry, but you've got some work to do. |
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Jett Wiring harness smoking when fog lights turned on Jul 19 2019, 08:35 PM
mepstein Possibly a short somewhere. You are going to have ... Jul 19 2019, 08:43 PM lierofox Do you know what color wire was smoking? Jul 19 2019, 08:44 PM
Jett
Do you know what color wire was smoking?
I have ... Jul 19 2019, 09:39 PM Jett Note: When installing the speakers for the first t... Jul 19 2019, 11:53 PM lierofox Hopefully none of the wiring harness got pinched o... Jul 20 2019, 03:55 AM Jett Thanks! The shop has a bit of work to do and ... Jul 20 2019, 09:06 AM Superhawk996 :(
The British car guys have this problem all th... Jul 20 2019, 09:12 AM Jett
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The British car guys have this problem all t... Jul 20 2019, 10:22 AM Superhawk996
:) I am tired of spending top dollar and getting... Jul 20 2019, 10:53 AM mepstein Most likely is you will find one or two wires than... Jul 20 2019, 11:58 AM Jett
Most likely is you will find one or two wires tha... Jul 20 2019, 09:56 PM Spoke Here's the wiring for the foglights. No fuses ... Jul 21 2019, 02:43 PM |
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