Small problem with night driving
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Small problem with night driving
This may belong on the electronics board, but I can't be sure because I have no idea what the problem is. I just finished installing a complete ignition system on my TPI engine. It runs fine, everything works great, but when I took it out to drive last night, I noticed that all of my gauge lights have stopped working.
I immediately went through and checked every other electrical component inside my car... lights, mirrors, windows, wipers.. everything. I found out that the lights on my transmission gear indicator have stopped working as well. Everything else works, including all of my idiot lights on the gauge cluster. It's just the gauge lights themselves and the gear indicator that are gone.
I thought... blown fuse, so I checked the fuse, but it's fine. My next thought was that I had left a wire against a header somewhere and burned through it, or accidentally unplugged something when I was shifting my relays around. I went back over everything I touched during the installion, and I can't find anything burned or disconnected.
I considered that maybe the bulbs had burned out... but all of them at the same time seems a little fishy.. Is there an obvious solution that I'm missing? Has anyone had this problem before? I'd like to avoid taking it to the shop if at all possible. Thanks in advance for any help.
Willie C.
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86 Trans Am WS6
It takes some ***** to do your quarter-miling on foot.
Recent ET's:
@Atlanta 50.80
@Southeastern 50.62
@Mtn Laurel 50.04
Future mods: More endurance workouts and some 300 meter repeats. Projected E.T., 49.8
I immediately went through and checked every other electrical component inside my car... lights, mirrors, windows, wipers.. everything. I found out that the lights on my transmission gear indicator have stopped working as well. Everything else works, including all of my idiot lights on the gauge cluster. It's just the gauge lights themselves and the gear indicator that are gone.
I thought... blown fuse, so I checked the fuse, but it's fine. My next thought was that I had left a wire against a header somewhere and burned through it, or accidentally unplugged something when I was shifting my relays around. I went back over everything I touched during the installion, and I can't find anything burned or disconnected.
I considered that maybe the bulbs had burned out... but all of them at the same time seems a little fishy.. Is there an obvious solution that I'm missing? Has anyone had this problem before? I'd like to avoid taking it to the shop if at all possible. Thanks in advance for any help.
Willie C.
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86 Trans Am WS6
It takes some ***** to do your quarter-miling on foot.
Recent ET's:
@Atlanta 50.80
@Southeastern 50.62
@Mtn Laurel 50.04
Future mods: More endurance workouts and some 300 meter repeats. Projected E.T., 49.8
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From: Bootiful BC, Canada
You didn't mention this so... would it be a dead/dirty spot in the dimmer? Sometimes when I turn on my headlights at night I have no guage lights until I give the dimmer a little left/right wiggle.
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From: Loveland, OH, US
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Don't Firebirds have an electronic dimmer module? If so, that's the problem. IIRC it's fairly common.
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From: Kalamazoo, MI
Car: Z28
Engine: Edelbrockified 305
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It takes some ***** to do your quarter-miling on foot.
Recent ET's:
@Atlanta 50.80
@Southeastern 50.62
@Mtn Laurel 50.04
Future mods: More endurance workouts and some 300 meter repeats. Projected E.T., 49.8
No, It takes real ***** to run the 800!
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Ludicrous Speed GO!!!
Recent ET's:
@Atlanta 50.80
@Southeastern 50.62
@Mtn Laurel 50.04
Future mods: More endurance workouts and some 300 meter repeats. Projected E.T., 49.8
No, It takes real ***** to run the 800!
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Ludicrous Speed GO!!!
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