Needing help with a '87.
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Needing help with a '87.
I have a 1987 corvette. I bought it from a private seller. Ive been having a few bit of problems with it. For one my RPM's jump when idle from 6-11. That I was thinking was the timer belt but I don't know anything about cars really. My second problem is my dashboard. While driving once in a while my hud will go dark and the indicators of the left blinker, right blinker, and the high beams will come on. Nothing else will have lights behind it but those three. They all work during this time but when driving at night i can't see anything but those three. Lastly my interior lights, the radio, and the ac/heater does not work. I pressed in the car lighter and when it popped out, everything shut off. I think its a blown fuse but I could not tell which one was broken or not. Any thoughts or suggestions?
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I would pull and clean,cheak all fuses.check all vacumme lines. check and clean all connections on battery and blocks pull the battery to find them all and fuseable links behind the battery and all grounds.
I would start with the block by the battery.
I would start with the block by the battery.
Last edited by antfarmer2; Nov 2, 2015 at 12:06 PM.
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Daniel and Ant Farmers advice is right on track I would only add is check all inside grounds, as for your blown fuse its the courtesy fuse I believe its a 15 amp
If you replace with the cigarette lighter removed pull the console cover, if it blows when cigarette lighter is used inspect the element its probably shorted out
Its not uncommon for some of the back light bulbs to intermittently flicker or just burnout
If you replace with the cigarette lighter removed pull the console cover, if it blows when cigarette lighter is used inspect the element its probably shorted out
Its not uncommon for some of the back light bulbs to intermittently flicker or just burnout
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I can speak to the instrument cluster as it happened to me. Turned out to be the ground connector between the 2 boards in the cluster (per Bryan at Batee.com). I had Bryan repair mine and it's worked fine. The main symptom is everything goes dark except the turn signal lights come on solid along with the high beam indicator. If you take a flashlight when this happens, you can see the gauges are working, just not illuminated correctly.
Check out Bryan's website at: http://www.batee.com/
I recommend him and his work, he did great fixing mine. If you're up to doing it yourself, he sells parts plus he has a lot of info on his site regarding instrument cluster issues.
Check out Bryan's website at: http://www.batee.com/
I recommend him and his work, he did great fixing mine. If you're up to doing it yourself, he sells parts plus he has a lot of info on his site regarding instrument cluster issues.
