Bubba puzzler
#1
Melting Slicks
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Bubba puzzler
What was he trying to accomplish?
This is the harness to the rear lights. He tapped the brown wire (at least I think it’s brown) and connected it to the LPS spade on the fuse panel. Brown wire is power for lights.
Why ? what am I missing?
This is the harness to the rear lights. He tapped the brown wire (at least I think it’s brown) and connected it to the LPS spade on the fuse panel. Brown wire is power for lights.
Why ? what am I missing?
#3
Racer
Just a guess, but the LPS terminal is the instrument panel light circuit... if Bubba was popping parking lamp fuses, maybe he tried to power the parking lights from there?
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I bet you don't have any instrument lights now!!!
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There’s no telling if my instrument lights stopped working; my dash is completely removed. I knew there was some odd wiring work going on under the dash and wanted to go through it carefully.
The OEM harness looks in reasonable shape, but it had a few layers of Bubba added on to it.
From memory, I for sure have instrument lights. I just don’t recall if they are dimable. I don’t think they were.
is spade supposed to be vacant in OEM configuration? If not, where does it connect to?
Thanks!!
DC3
The OEM harness looks in reasonable shape, but it had a few layers of Bubba added on to it.
From memory, I for sure have instrument lights. I just don’t recall if they are dimable. I don’t think they were.
is spade supposed to be vacant in OEM configuration? If not, where does it connect to?
Thanks!!
DC3
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Speaking of, the radio was very poorly wired... of course.
How does radio relate to this ?
How does radio relate to this ?
#8
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I wonder if the dimmer function in the light switch burned out resulting in no instrument lighting so he took a more "direct approach" rather than replacing the switch..
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There’s no telling if my instrument lights stopped working; my dash is completely removed. I knew there was some odd wiring work going on under the dash and wanted to go through it carefully.
The OEM harness looks in reasonable shape, but it had a few layers of Bubba added on to it.
From memory, I for sure have instrument lights. I just don’t recall if they are dimable. I don’t think they were.
is spade supposed to be vacant in OEM configuration? If not, where does it connect to?
Thanks!!
DC3
The OEM harness looks in reasonable shape, but it had a few layers of Bubba added on to it.
From memory, I for sure have instrument lights. I just don’t recall if they are dimable. I don’t think they were.
is spade supposed to be vacant in OEM configuration? If not, where does it connect to?
Thanks!!
DC3
Definitely a really DIRECT approach...branching off a 20A circuit to feed a 5A one...without a fuse... What could possibly go wrong???
#10
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So let me get this straight. That spade (typically vacant) is used as an additional feed for instrument lighting... It is variable as from light switch potentiometer.
The feed to the actual instrument lights goes from the light switch vatirator, to the rear of the fuse panel, through a small glass tube fuse (presumably called “INST LPS”). After going through the fuse, varied power then goes both to that spade (as an auxiliary) and behind to feed instrument lights...
Bubba bypassed the fuse probably because the wrong-sized, not-fully-seated fuse was not reliable.
my guess is... he had the wrong fuse in there (too big to fit)
if that is the case, I’ll bet that fuse, not fully seated, was unreliable and he did this reverse workaround.
The feed to the actual instrument lights goes from the light switch vatirator, to the rear of the fuse panel, through a small glass tube fuse (presumably called “INST LPS”). After going through the fuse, varied power then goes both to that spade (as an auxiliary) and behind to feed instrument lights...
Bubba bypassed the fuse probably because the wrong-sized, not-fully-seated fuse was not reliable.
my guess is... he had the wrong fuse in there (too big to fit)
if that is the case, I’ll bet that fuse, not fully seated, was unreliable and he did this reverse workaround.
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Great Bubba forensics!!!
WOW- what a long way around -instead of just getting the right size fuse!!!!
WOW- what a long way around -instead of just getting the right size fuse!!!!
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So let me get this straight. That spade (typically vacant) is used as an additional feed for instrument lighting... It is variable as from light switch potentiometer.
The feed to the actual instrument lights goes from the light switch vatirator, to the rear of the fuse panel, through a small glass tube fuse (presumably called “INST LPS”). After going through the fuse, varied power then goes both to that spade (as an auxiliary) and behind to feed instrument lights...
Bubba bypassed the fuse probably because the wrong-sized, not-fully-seated fuse was not reliable.
my guess is... he had the wrong fuse in there (too big to fit)
if that is the case, I’ll bet that fuse, not fully seated, was unreliable and he did this reverse workaround.
The feed to the actual instrument lights goes from the light switch vatirator, to the rear of the fuse panel, through a small glass tube fuse (presumably called “INST LPS”). After going through the fuse, varied power then goes both to that spade (as an auxiliary) and behind to feed instrument lights...
Bubba bypassed the fuse probably because the wrong-sized, not-fully-seated fuse was not reliable.
my guess is... he had the wrong fuse in there (too big to fit)
if that is the case, I’ll bet that fuse, not fully seated, was unreliable and he did this reverse workaround.
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Seeing that fuse block I'd second getting a new harness. I've tried to fix things like that in the past and it's just not worth it. You can get it patched up and working, but it will just start to cause headaches again in the near future.
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#14
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Hmmmmmm - I def need to consider this. Especially now that everything is apart.