This must be a VERY common problem. Although I have a mechanical tacho, I find
that
all lights in the rear of the car sometimes go out. Wiggling the bundle of
wiring
that appears to come from the inboard side of the fuse box seems to restore
light
again for a time.
As you say, someday I'll have to crawl under there and realy investigate.
Cheers, Fred
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Gary Tash wrote:
> I have a similar issue that seems to be centered on the fuse box. It's been
> awhile since I've had an opportunity to drive the car, but I pretty sure the
>tach
> goes dead, I mess with the wires while trying to stay on the road, the tach
> returns to normal. I always assumed it was a poor connection that I'll fix
> someday. Who knows maybe soon.
> -Gary
>
> > Mine does it sometimes when I use my turn signals. I think I have a pinched
> > wire that pulls excessive current when I use the turn signals (wire
>partially
> > shorted to ground). This causes heating at the poor connection of the fuse
>in
> > the fuse box causing the fuse to fuse holder connection to open and power to
> > everything from that fuse down to go away. When it happens I can reach down
> > to where the wires come out of the fuse box in the car and pull on them,
>this
> > usually restores the Tach (and tepm/gas gauges ) to operation.
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Calgary, Canada
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