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Cadet57
Posts : 4481 Join date : 2010-03-14 Age : 36 Location : Chicopee, MA
| Subject: Mysterious Electrical Gremlin/ Short- HELP! Fri Apr 30, 2010 5:15 pm | |
| Here's a good one... Today I got in the car and turned the key to on. Radio makes a buzzing noise and car doesnt chime. I open glove box, a very faint chime, close glovebox chime goes away. So I checked fuses, the cluster fuse was blown, replace with new one. Chime, and radio work, open glove box again, radio goes off chime dims. Rise and repeat. Also while this is going on, both fuses on my CB blew- it was plugged into the cig outlet... Help? Please? | |
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toomanytoyz Club President
Posts : 6876 Join date : 2009-01-20 Age : 47 Location : East Hampstead, NH USA
| Subject: Re: Mysterious Electrical Gremlin/ Short- HELP! Fri Apr 30, 2010 8:04 pm | |
| Did you try unplugging the CB?
Done any work recently where the carpet was moved or you were under the dash and something could have possibly been bumped or shorted?
Put anything too big in the glove box? | |
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Cadet57
Posts : 4481 Join date : 2010-03-14 Age : 36 Location : Chicopee, MA
| Subject: Re: Mysterious Electrical Gremlin/ Short- HELP! Fri Apr 30, 2010 9:46 pm | |
| - toomanytoyz wrote:
- Did you try unplugging the CB?
Done any work recently where the carpet was moved or you were under the dash and something could have possibly been bumped or shorted?
Put anything too big in the glove box? Cb is unplugged and it still does it. And yes when we were searching for the stalling gremlin we pulled the carpet around the passenger floor by the PCM. | |
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toomanytoyz Club President
Posts : 6876 Join date : 2009-01-20 Age : 47 Location : East Hampstead, NH USA
| Subject: Re: Mysterious Electrical Gremlin/ Short- HELP! Sat May 01, 2010 1:16 pm | |
| - Cadet57 wrote:
Cb is unplugged and it still does it. And yes when we were searching for the stalling gremlin we pulled the carpet around the passenger floor by the PCM. Well I would most definately pull that carpet back again and do some heavy duty searching. | |
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Cadet57
Posts : 4481 Join date : 2010-03-14 Age : 36 Location : Chicopee, MA
| Subject: Re: Mysterious Electrical Gremlin/ Short- HELP! Sat May 01, 2010 2:28 pm | |
| - toomanytoyz wrote:
- Cadet57 wrote:
Cb is unplugged and it still does it. And yes when we were searching for the stalling gremlin we pulled the carpet around the passenger floor by the PCM. Well I would most definately pull that carpet back again and do some heavy duty searching. I looked today. I didnt see it. Hopefully someone can help me find it tomorrow. | |
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Cadet57
Posts : 4481 Join date : 2010-03-14 Age : 36 Location : Chicopee, MA
| Subject: Re: Mysterious Electrical Gremlin/ Short- HELP! Sat May 01, 2010 9:38 pm | |
| I've traced it down to something in the dash (i'm pretty sure) as there is something that is drawing too much juice to the point that having the dome light on will cause the radio to shut off. | |
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toomanytoyz Club President
Posts : 6876 Join date : 2009-01-20 Age : 47 Location : East Hampstead, NH USA
| Subject: Re: Mysterious Electrical Gremlin/ Short- HELP! Sat May 01, 2010 10:30 pm | |
| We can take a look tomorrow. | |
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Cadet57
Posts : 4481 Join date : 2010-03-14 Age : 36 Location : Chicopee, MA
| Subject: Re: Mysterious Electrical Gremlin/ Short- HELP! Tue May 04, 2010 8:33 am | |
| Ok. This thing has officially gone from annoying to downright frustrating I can't stand it anymore, and I can't figure out where its coming from. Ill have it fixed in one area and it'll just keep moving. | |
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Cadet57
Posts : 4481 Join date : 2010-03-14 Age : 36 Location : Chicopee, MA
| Subject: Re: Mysterious Electrical Gremlin/ Short- HELP! Sat May 08, 2010 8:11 pm | |
| One more bump... I took apart the entire dash yesterday and can't find it. Anyone willing to give me a hand finding this thing? I keep forgetting it's there (mostly in the hope it goes away) and every time I go to use my rear wiper it resets the radio | |
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bammax
Posts : 2301 Join date : 2009-02-22 Age : 42 Location : Mansfield, Ma
| Subject: Re: Mysterious Electrical Gremlin/ Short- HELP! Sat May 08, 2010 9:13 pm | |
| I'd say swing by and I can give you a hand, but your 100 miles away | |
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Cadet57
Posts : 4481 Join date : 2010-03-14 Age : 36 Location : Chicopee, MA
| Subject: Re: Mysterious Electrical Gremlin/ Short- HELP! Mon May 24, 2010 7:14 pm | |
| HAHAHAHAHAHA I fixed it! I was checking the fusebox for the hundredth time and when I pulled the rear wiper fuse I noticed the tabs were very oxidized/ cruddy, swapped in a new 15amp fuse. Poof, works great now. How did I miss that so many flippin times | |
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GasTT
Posts : 2675 Join date : 2009-01-19 Age : 36 Location : Treasure Coast, FL
| Subject: Re: Mysterious Electrical Gremlin/ Short- HELP! Mon May 24, 2010 7:24 pm | |
| K.I.S.S. Keep It Simple Stupid. Took apart the whole dash to find out it was a fuse. At least you figured it out! | |
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Cadet57
Posts : 4481 Join date : 2010-03-14 Age : 36 Location : Chicopee, MA
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