Bwmurph
Well-known member
Hello All,
This car is going to be the death of me ! Long story, will shorten out as much as I can: After the recent install of the new front clip I noticed my temp gauge does not seem to be working right. It seems to read high saying the car is badly overheating. Finally confirming that it's not overheating by way of by way of using a different gauge purchased from NAPA, I installed a variable resistor I had purchased some time ago for CC (manufactured by RARE, Joe Calcagno).
That wasn't too bad, but in the process I found a wire under the dash that was disconnected. It's a black wire, so I'm assuming it is a ground wire for something. I couldn't find any terminal that seemed to be missing a ground so I found a spot to connect it to under the dash. Problem solved. NOT !!
So now I'm ready to take the car for a spin and adjust my temp gauge when I notice I don't have any taillights. I start checking things and find I have no brake lights, no tail lights and only the blinker on the passenger side works. I start checking more things and find that when the headlights are on low beam the outside beam is lit on the pass side and the inside beam is lit on the driver side ! WTH !!!
At that point I walked away from it before I did something I would regret. Any ideas ? Headlight switch bad ? I need to find out where that ground really went ? Bad flasher ? I think the headlight issue will be simple enough, but I'm at a loss for tail light/blinker issue. Any help will be appreciated.
Bernie O
This car is going to be the death of me ! Long story, will shorten out as much as I can: After the recent install of the new front clip I noticed my temp gauge does not seem to be working right. It seems to read high saying the car is badly overheating. Finally confirming that it's not overheating by way of by way of using a different gauge purchased from NAPA, I installed a variable resistor I had purchased some time ago for CC (manufactured by RARE, Joe Calcagno).
That wasn't too bad, but in the process I found a wire under the dash that was disconnected. It's a black wire, so I'm assuming it is a ground wire for something. I couldn't find any terminal that seemed to be missing a ground so I found a spot to connect it to under the dash. Problem solved. NOT !!
So now I'm ready to take the car for a spin and adjust my temp gauge when I notice I don't have any taillights. I start checking things and find I have no brake lights, no tail lights and only the blinker on the passenger side works. I start checking more things and find that when the headlights are on low beam the outside beam is lit on the pass side and the inside beam is lit on the driver side ! WTH !!!
At that point I walked away from it before I did something I would regret. Any ideas ? Headlight switch bad ? I need to find out where that ground really went ? Bad flasher ? I think the headlight issue will be simple enough, but I'm at a loss for tail light/blinker issue. Any help will be appreciated.
Bernie O
