 A kiss of death!, When wires fry and smoke fills the cockpit. |
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| JPB |
 Aug 22 2006, 02:49 PM
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The Crimson Rocket smiles in your general direction.  Group: Members Posts: 2,927 Joined: 12-November 05 From: Tapmahamock, Va. Member No.: 5,107  |
As a newby at this 914 thing, I decided to diagnose the headlight wiring to see what was not allowing my headlights to go up and so forth. After testing as per the bird board how to info, I traced it to the head light switch. As some might know, its a tight little hole up in there and shure enough as I went to puill the switch out poof and smoke a bellowing out of the dash like a full blown blaze. The hot wire out of the terminal bolted to the sheet metal was to blame; easy fix. There is a jumper if you can see on the switch which looks kinda strange. Does this wiring look normal to you? I know unplug the battery bla bla bla...way to many hot wires everywhere bla bla bla.........
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| SirAndy |
Aug 22 2006, 03:31 PM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 42,036 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
QUOTE(JPB @ Aug 22 2006, 01:49 PM)  I know unplug the battery bla bla bla... haha, i was about to say that ... anyways, looks like some PO "expert" did some "upgrades" to your wiring ... be afraid, be very, very afraid ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) Andy |
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