On 8/8/07, Mark Drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote: > > The dash lights are powered by the adjustment wheel on the headight > on/off switch. On 88 models that feeds through a fuse at relay position > 16 on the main relay panel. Page 97.119 of the Bentley shows the relay > panel and a black square with a 16 in it. That is where you should look. > If the fuse is blown, the 3 wires you mentioned that are joined together > may need to be separated to keep the fuse from blowing again. Grey/blue > is the color of the dash light circuit wires. They run all across the > dash to light the cig socket outer ring, for example, and also to the > original radio harness to light the stock radio at night, not needed > anymore. > > Mark
Mark, I should ahve made it clear that the three wires are NOT joined together. Jeff Schwaia gave me the same basic run down in the wires. The Grey/Blue is hanging in the breeze (phone guy terminology) and no obvious place for it to plug in. The Brown tested correctly again swinging in the breeze. Lastly, that bigger gauge Black/Yellow has positive on it. IIRC Jeff, said that Grey/Blue probably plugged in to the stock radio for backlighting. There was no power on that so the relay might be the culprit. I'll try that next. The fuses all tested good. I'll report back here once sorted out.
Thanks, BenT |
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