[Spridgets] wiring harness

[Chris King]

Well, I pulled the dash this afternoon, but couldn't find what was
shorting out. Put a fuse in and everything worked, and the fuse didn't
blow. So the search continues.

One thing it's been doing since Ive had it - the tach usually takes a
couple of seconds to respond after the car is started, especially when
cold. Any of you 1500 guys seen this? Is my tach dying?


-=Chris
Chris King
http://home.comcast.net/~kvcbk/

<-----Original Message-----> 
>From: Frank Clarici [spritenut at comcast.net]
>Sent: 7/11/2010 8:06:44 PM
>To: cbking at alum.rpi.edu
>Cc: spridgets at autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: [Spridgets] wiring harness
>
>On 7/11/2010 9:46 AM, Chris King wrote:
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I've got a short somewhere in the dash circuit
>> 1. Patch the 31 year old harness
>> 2. Get a new harness from somewhere like British Wiring.
>> 3. Put in a universal harness like Painless.
>
>Check to see exactly when the fuse blows.
>When you step on the brakes? Then it's the brake light wire or
something 
>in the boot that frayed that wire.
>When the signals go left or right?
>Wipers on?
>Heater blower on?
>Check each item with all the others off until you blow the fuse.
>Most of the time, it's a wire in the trunk that got nicked and is now 
>shorting out.
>If it blows with nothing on as soon as you turn on the key, it's a wire
>from the either the tach or fuel gauge hitting something it shouldn't 
>under the dash.
>-- 
>Frank Clarici
>Toms River, NJ
>Lots of Sprites
>.