

| Subject: | Re: 88 Electrical/ light questions |
| From: | David Beierl |
| Date: | Thu, 13 May 1999 15:11:43 -0400 |
At 18:32 5/13/99 +0000, Paul Dierze wrote: > In the compartment under the drivers seat there is a junction box > mounted in the upper right. Coming out of the wire bundle are a brown > wire and a grey wire that go nowhere. They are cut and taped. Any > Ideas? I think they may be for a cd player from the PO but not sure > because they look to be in the bundle not just fed next to it. I bet it's the seat-belt switch -- internal switch in the female buckle to shut off the light on the dash. Goes through a hole in the side of the box, as I recall. Gray and brown sounds right (all grounds are brown). >What is that small fuse box behind the drivers seat? It has one normal >bus fuse and something else on the other side. One is the reefer and the other is the water pump, monitor panel, overhead light. The reefer prob. uses 16 amp, 8 should suffice for the other. Check that before you start tearing your lights apart. >Also I have a taillight that I have to tap every once in a while to get to >turn on. Is that a ground issue? Maybe. Use your new meter to find out where the voltage is *when the light is not working* -- there should be 12v across the light. If it shows up anywhere else then that's the problem. BTW, a burnt-out bulb will sometimes self-weld the ends of the filament when you tap it. david David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net
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