Still going through our newly acquired 86. The electrical in this thing is puzzling. Someone cut a wire that’s coming out of the steering column and looks like it was leading into the turn signal stick. Why would that be? Is this a smoking gun to other problems that bubba was trying to avoid rather than fix? Fuse circuit 11 has a short somewhere because it won’t hold a fuse without blowing it. That’s the dome and courtesy lights along a few other things. Funny this is, it will stay operational until we slightly move the steering wheel then you hear it pop. WTH? What’s the steering wheel wiring have on that circuit? Any common issues that I should look into first? I want to make this thing safe enough for my boy and right now we aren’t going anywhere without the extinguisher the back seat. It’s originally an Iowa car so salted roads was probably it’s mainstay most of its life. Are their some grounds that are more quickly affected by corrosion maybe underneath the car that should be checked first? Thanks for any help

 

Because they were an idiot. Happens all the time. For as long as I've been stuck on this planet, it has always amazed me how THE FIRST THING that comes to some human's minds (I use the word VERY loosely) whenever they see a wire, is to whup out their dykes and cut it. There should be a test and license required to touch a pair of those, and anyone caught cutting a wire without knowing what they're doing, should spend the rest of their life in federal pound me in the a$$ prison.

The key buzzer is on that circuit. Somebody probably was messing with the steering wheel some kind of way and damaged that.

 

interesting. Well my goal is to get everything working the way it’s supposed to. Still need to see why fuse 11 is shorting out but in due time I’ll start chasing the wires starting with the grounds.

 

This is a little contact set in the column that when you put the key in, it recognizes its presence, and if the door is open, it buzzes.

 

"federal pound me in the a$$ prison".

LMAO!

 

A great cultural reference