I have seen it all now!! Help

[jiangtao]

My dash lights don't work, but the two lights under the dash do. They come on with the car just sitting there overnight! I was driving home the other day and all of a sudden the light between the t-tops kept flickering on and off! Before I bought the car a local yocal at a shop pulled the dash and did work on the wiper switch. What did he forget or do wrong? Any ideas? It is an '82. Thanks.

 

[wishuwerehere82]

Check your courtesy light timer relay. Pull out the glove box liner and it's mounted on the right hand side under the dash. Kind of a rectangular box with a card edge connector that clips onto the unit. Try putting some new solder on the contacts to freshen it up.

You may need to pull the dash to find out why the dash lights aren't working. The yokel may have forgotten to put the connector onto the headlight switch..... or check your fusebox for a blown fuse. It's the middle one of 3 on the bottom row of the fuseblock.

 

[jiangtao]

I just got finished talking to one of my friends and he said it could be the blower motor ground. After all, my air/heating system doesn't blow. Well, sometimes, but very little. Could that also be the culprit? I am going to pull the dash anyway, but I really don't know what I'm looking at!! Where is the blower ground? Thanks for the insight.

 

[wishuwerehere82]

The blower motor ground is on the blower motor. A ground strap to frame ground. You can see it by looking up from under the car next to the pass. side fender. There is a single wire to the blower motor for power that comes from the blower relay and resistor mounted on the firewall by the hood seal in the center.(right by the distributor.)
The low and medium speeds are powered though the fuse box, but the high speed power is supplied by a 10 Ga. red wire that has it's own separate inline fuse.

The dash lights are powered from the fuse box and switch on through the headlight switch and are controlled in intensity by a rotary resistor on the headlight switch shaft.

 

[joe1975]

Try wiggling one of those under dash lights and see if it goes off and on. I'm thinking your bulbs are grounding on the bracket thats why they could be coming on overnite.I had a simlar problem