Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:40:56 -0500
Reply-To: Derek Drew <derekdrew@DEREKMAIL.COM>
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From: Derek Drew <derekdrew@DEREKMAIL.COM>
Subject: Ground Wire For Camper Light Mystery
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Does anybody know how the factory default ground wire / grounding
location is from the camper light in the back of late (grey) vans?
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The reason I ask is because a few weeks ago I noticed that in a 91 I have
here that the rear camper light wouldn't go on unless I touched a wire
(probably an unterminated brown wire) under the dashboard to a grounding
point on the chassis. This was about five months ago but I am having
trouble finding under the dashboard that wire. <br><br>
Now I can't get the light to turn on at all. <br><br>
I looked in the wiring diagrams and the "Camper Electrical
Equipment" page(es) refer to a camper light in the back being
terminated at terminal 31 of the "Front Interior Light". I see
that there are two ground wires connected to terminal 31 of the only
"Front Interior Light" in this van. One of these two brown 0.5
wires probably terminate at the chassis ground tree under the dashboard,
then the other of these two brown ground wires presumably goes to the
fancy grey light in the back of the van as it says in the manual. But
what is strange is that I cannot measure any continuity between the
ground pins of the light in the back and either of the brown 0.5 size
wires at the front interior light. <br><br>
All I can guess is that somehow the 0.5 brown wire to the light in the
back has burned out somehow but I really cannot believe how this could
happen. I switched that light to use LEDs which presumably use a lot less
current than the original incandescent. <br><br>
It is besides the point but really, I cannot believe that the factory
would bother to ground that light under the front dashboard anyway since
it makes no sense (to me) for them to have done so. I would have grounded
that light to chassis behind the refrigerator or up near the light
itself. <br><br>
I have no other recourse now that I can take of but to take the woodwork
apart above the rear camper light and ground it to the chassis back there
someplace. <br><br>
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____________________________<br>
<b>Derek
Drew</b>
<br>
Sharon CT<br>
derekdrew@derekmail.com<br>
Email is best normally but...<br>
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