[DML] Re: Hunting unwanted grounds on the #12 fuse
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[DML] Re: Hunting unwanted grounds on the #12 fuse





All those wire junctions are under the console (Purple, Green,
Red/Orange, etc).

Have you damaged either of the two harnesses that pass under the
console? It's easy to pierce them with the trim screws that hold the
shift boot plate.

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "cruznmd" <racuti1@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> I spent today hunting the ground that's blowing the #12 fuse.
> 
> I unplugged everything that I could get access to; engine compt. 
> light, bonnet light, dome lights, glove box light, door switches and 
> courtesy light harnesses inside the doors. I have NOT pulled the T-
> panel yet.
> 
> In the wiring diagram, at the fusebox, brown feeds the fuse, and 
> purple coming from the fuse distributes the power to all of the 
> above items. They are turned on/off by switching ground as we all 
> already know.
> 
> The must be a very bad ground on the purple distribution wire 
> because I put my multimeter on the purple side of the fuse at the 
> fusebox and touched a ground point and the meter indicated a 
> connection. Brown and purple should both indicated an open circuit. 
> The ground must be deeper in the core of the harness.
> 
> The diagram indicates a purple wire junction point where the shorter 
> legs all come together before the main wire goes to the fuse. 
> Perhaps someone can direct me to this junction point.
>  
> If I can disconnect each item one at a time at the junction point, 
> and test for the ground, it'll tell me where the bad wire is.
> 
> Rich A
> #5335








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