Date:         Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:10:13 -0400
Reply-To:     benoit <huotb@VIDEOTRON.CA>
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From:         benoit <huotb@VIDEOTRON.CA>
Subject:      Re: Help with coolant light flashing randomly - no leaks
Comments: To: Mark Drillock <drillock@earthlink.net>
In-Reply-To:  <46EAC025.3070700@earthlink.net>
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Found.... if it would have been night time, i would have seen that
everything in the dash/front was dimmed down.... giving me all kind of
problems!!! radio buzzing, light flickering.... DIFICULT STARTING....
men ho men, all that trouble for a coroded +.
The main red + wire that goes to the fuse box on the battery (the small
one) was corroded and loose...

I had voltage but no amp... grrrrrrrrrrr... 7 hours later.

Cheers, Ben

Mark Drillock wrote:

> 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
>>
>
>