Electrical experts please help!
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Electrical experts please help!
My car has issues...please help! :confused: Here is a link to the long story: http://digitalcorvettes.com/forums/s...&threadid=5018 :confused:
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Re: Electrical experts please help! (yoslambo1@cs.com)
you have found the problem... it's in the radio circuit... now, the question is WHERE in the circuit.
You need a volt meter and the helms manual. Then start testing every single wire in the circuit. It will mean removing convolute and electrical tape.
you have a bare wire somewhere.
You need a volt meter and the helms manual. Then start testing every single wire in the circuit. It will mean removing convolute and electrical tape.
you have a bare wire somewhere.
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Electrical experts please help! (yoslambo1@cs.com)
Bogus...What if I remove the radio & run all new wiring for it? :confused:
nice when you can almost solve your own problem eh?
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Re: Electrical experts please help! (bogus)
you have found the problem... it's in the radio circuit... now, the question is WHERE in the circuit.
You need a volt meter and the helms manual. Then start testing every single wire in the circuit. It will mean removing convolute and electrical tape.
you have a bare wire somewhere.
You need a volt meter and the helms manual. Then start testing every single wire in the circuit. It will mean removing convolute and electrical tape.
you have a bare wire somewhere.
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Re: Electrical experts please help! (Jay 383)
Bogus...What if I remove the radio & run all new wiring for it? :confused: that sounds like a fine idea....original wiring in a near 20 year old car, some of it could be frayed or chafed.
nice when you can almost solve your own problem eh?
nice when you can almost solve your own problem eh?
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Re: Electrical experts please help! (yoslambo1@cs.com)
Even though my mechanic says its not the starter I BELIEVE that it is. If my starter was bad would jumping the cylonoid with a screwdriver be possible? My mechanic says if I can jump the cylonoid that the starter is not the problem? :confused: :skep:
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Re: Electrical experts please help! (yoslambo1@cs.com)
your mechanic could be right about the starter. it is probably a bad solenoid not a bad starter. also you may have more than one problem. i would still check out that radio circuit. if you don't fix that , you could have an electrical fire and lose the car.
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Re: Electrical experts please help! (dwestsr)
You need to get a Volt meter and start to dig into the main harness.
I hate to say it, but you might have to pretty much take the dash apart.
WARNING: I would not leave the battery connected until you find this problem!!!!!
I hate to say it, but you might have to pretty much take the dash apart.
WARNING: I would not leave the battery connected until you find this problem!!!!!
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Re: Electrical experts please help! (dwestsr)
your mechanic could be right about the starter. it is probably a bad solenoid not a bad starter. also you may have more than one problem. i would still check out that radio circuit. if you don't fix that , you could have an electrical fire and lose the car.
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Re: Electrical experts please help! (yoslambo1@cs.com)
I think your mechanic gave you some good advice. Next time the problem hapens put a test light on the purple starter wire and see if you are geting 12V. If you are then it is the starter if not the problem. You have a lot of diferent electrical problem ocuring and probably have a wire shorted some where. I am wundering about the new colum you installed, how long after you installed it did your problems start?
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Re: Electrical experts please help! (84LT1)
I think your mechanic gave you some good advice. Next time the problem hapens put a test light on the purple starter wire and see if you are geting 12V. If you are then it is the starter if not the problem. You have a lot of diferent electrical problem ocuring and probably have a wire shorted some where. I am wundering about the new colum you installed, how long after you installed it did your problems start?
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Re: Electrical experts please help! (84LT1)
I think your mechanic gave you some good advice. Next time the problem hapens put a test light on the purple starter wire and see if you are geting 12V. If you are then it is the starter if not the problem.
