

| Subject: | Re: Dash Light Weirdness |
| From: | Dan Winget |
| Date: | Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:31:30 -0400 |
Behind your fuse block are 2 round grounding blocks. clean all of your grounds this may do the trick Dan Jim Felder wrote: > I was driving back home at night after a 400 mile errand last thursday > in my '90. During the day, my temp needle had run high, say one needle > width over the LED, and the light flashed all the time after I stopped > for gas or something. I pulled over and checked the coolant lever, it > was fine. Figured my water pump might be failing me. > > However, as it got dark and I turned on my lights, a good deal of > dashlight weirdness followed. With my lights on and the brightness > rheostat (or whatever) wheel down low, my tach read about 1000 rpm low, > one of the other leds came on bright (the bright lights, I think) and > the temp needle rose a bit. > > Turn the adjuster to full brightness, the temp LED came on dimly, the > oil LED would shine brightly and the bright light LED would go out. > > Through all this I had no dash illuminance at all, totally dark. > > So the next day I pop the shroud off and unplug and then replug the > switch receptacle. Everything worked. > > Last night the same thing happened again, and the unplug-replug trick > didn't work. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > > Jim >
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