ah, had a mustang back in the day, fog lights kept blowing fuse's, so I
decided to bypass the fuse just to see if the lights worked (bought them
used), like you said lot's of red glowing wire, smoke, and then melted
wires!
-- Punch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1998 Dakota CC V6, Deep Amethyst, K&N Homebrew Intake, Gutter Guard Grills, Dynomax Cat Back Exhaust, Jet stage 2 BFG A/T KO 235/75/15, Autolite 3923's. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *In the near future: Billet TB, 180Dg. Thermo, energy suspension bushings, Hotchkis sway bars, AirRaid intake, Leer Cap, Spray in bedliner, MTX Thunderforms. ""Tom (Silver89)"" <Silvereightynine@aol.com> wrote in message news:a16euj$d5q$1@bent.twistedbits.net... > Well since there have been a lont of wiring posts late.y = I may as well let > everyone know what happened Friday night. I wasn't gonna post about it > because 1) its humiliating and 2) I'm very depressed. > > After I got the 4x4 running finally, new engine, new tires, alignment, all > new suspension and steering , new radiator, new bumper etc etc etc... I > started wed. on the instalation of a pair of Hella 550 Driving lights and a > 5 light set of cab roof mount clearence lights (Dodge Ram part kit). > > Wed. I worked on the truck until 3:30 am - I had removed interior panels, > the headliner, measured the locations for the roof lights, drilled holes, > installed them, wired it up to the individual lights... then for the Hellas, > I was mounting them under the bumper so I had bought a new plastic air dam > that had holes in it for fogs. > > I had to remove the old dam, then bold on the new one, bold on the Hellas, > and then wire it up with the harness and a power relay. I couldnt finish it > up that night. so I went back Thursday to work on it again. I wired up and > got the Hellas working... but the cab lights were still out.. in the mean > time I had been driving it around since Wed. with the headliner out and the > interior a mess. > > Friday night (lastnight) I went back out to finish the job up... I was > wiring up the roof lights and ran into a problem, when I realized I didnt > have the ground wires properly set up.. so I disconnected the hella light > switch and pulled the wires off the terminals to redo the ground wires for > it all... everything was turned off (engine running) but no lights on. > Everything was fused .. accept a single wire that ran from the battery to > the Hella light switch - that terminal hit something metal and everything > shorted. Smoke spewing from everywhere - the cab filled up with smoke smoke > bellowed from under the hood... wires hlowing red hot. I killed the engine - > scrambled to get the hood up and ripped off the wire from the battery > terminal with an insulated pliers - heres the good part. > > The hella wires are melted, part of the clearence light wireing is melted, > the ground wire to the headlamp switch is melted and fused with other wires. > The key-in-ignition-reminder buzzer is shorted and wont turn off.. I removed > the buzzer modual to make it stop. The snow plow control wires are melted > through. I don't know the extent of the damage to the trucks under dash > wiring harness - I know the damned thing is partially fused to the ground > wire - but I'm afraid of additional shorting due to the damage caused by the > original short!! > > I dont have the time, patience, money, or determination to rip that dash out > myself and replace the wireharness and I can't afford to have it done by a > shop - so now I have two dead trucks, nothing to drive, and lots of debt - > so you can see where I am at my witts end - over $10K has been invested in > this peice of @#$%!! here I sit wishing I was drunk. > > Here I sit wishing I was drunk...What the flippin hell do I do now????? > > I'm goin to bed... maybe I'll wake up and it will be nothing more than a bad > dream that I woke up from.... > > ----------------------------------- > > > "That one has a strange blue neon thing... I'm betting theres cocane up > there" - Eddie Vedder > > Tom (Silver98) > http://members.aol.com/silvereightynine/ > > webmaster@savechrysler.com > www.savechrysler.com > > 1989 Reg Cab, V6, Auto, 8 footer, 4x2 > 1989 Reg Cab, V6, Auto, 8 footer, 4x4 w plow >
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