Ben, try unplugging the wires to the alternator. I had a ghost flashing like this a few years ago and replacing the alternator was the final fix. Mark Benny boy wrote: > I have been struggling for 5 hours on a similar problem, but worse. > > The light will blink crasy erraticaly for no reason, i mean will even pulse > with the engine rpm at start up, after the engine start, it will do all kind > of crasy thing... of course every wire, plug connector, relay have been > replace/check. From the engine bay to the cluster. Even the 2 plug going to > the relay and the other one unplug, this is still happening. So i pulled the > yellow and the blue one out of the cluster connector and i still have the > problem... so you will say cluster! but no, i have a spare one and smae > stuff is happening. So the conclusion, one of the other 10 or so wire is > making a short and that light react to it!!! > > The van is an 84. > > So today i should find more and i will post about it. > > Ben > |
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