Re: Electrical Gremlins

From: JT McBride (James.McBride@GDEsystems.COM)
Date: Fri Jan 16 1998 - 14:00:30 EST


>On cold startup (and it is cold here, below zero F) , the right turn signal
>doesn't work, and the radio display is dim. After about ten minutes of
>driving full brightness returns to the radio, the turn signal works, but
>when I put the brakes on, the timer/frequency display in the radio
>flickers....! What a gremlin! Left turn signal is always ok, brake

Sounds like you have a bad ground. It's pretty rare for two switched
circuits to get flaky at once, but if they both return through the same
ground, you've got one point of failure.

If you have the FSM, they call out every grounding point on the truck.

Jim

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