On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 23:29:41 -0400, Gerry
wrote:

On Wed, 25 Sep 2019 07:34:49 -0400, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Terry Coombs" wrote in message
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I'm thinking that Steve is right , it's inside the harness . I
spent over an hour today minutely inspecting that harness for any
kind of damage that might be the short . I'm tied up tomorrow and
Thursday , but on Friday I'll be pulling that fuse block and
probably running a new power supply wire outside the harness . As
far as what conditions cause the short , that's what is weird . I
have over a mile of rough (ROUGH!) unpaved road to get to the
highway , the radio died a couple of miles after I hit the paved
road .

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Snag
Yes , I'm old
and crochety - and armed .
Get outta my woods !


You might research how to make a reliable splice in vehicle wiring,
since vibrating copper wire tends to work-harden and break. When
engine electronics expanded in the 1970's even the engineers had
trouble with connections.

When I was wiring prototype electric vehicles the company had the
proper expensive crimping tools. Soldering is usually bad because it
can create a stress concentration where the wires exit the solder,
which hastens breakage. The motor in my Maytag washing machine failed
that way.

I don't have a 100% perfect record of crimp-splicing wires at home
with cheap consumer or worn industrial tooling and like welding it's a
muscle-memory type job I'm better at doing than describing.

About the worst I ever ran across was a 1983 Dodge Aries where the
wiring harness for door locks and power windows complete with cloth
tape protected, spot welded branch connections, was routed under the
floor mat insulation/padding under the drivers feet. Were else in the
car could you find a greater quantity of chemical laden water during
cold weather in the Great White North!

I have an even better one... 2003 Dodge Caravan. All the wiring from
the dash..controls, etc etc..runs out of the back of the dash..under
the PLASTIC driverside wheel well cover and then into the engine
compartment.
When you blow a steel belted and it wipes out the inner plastic
cover..and then rips out all the wiring from both the engine
compartment AND the dash..it gets pretty ****ty...

https://photos.app.goo.gl/ikd6KP2UeN61g3pA3

The wife still drives with an LED flashlight on the dash at night to
show the speedo. I need to fix that.. I keep forgetting and she never
reminds me.

I had to get an entire wiring harness from another Dodge and rip out
the old one and install the new one. And of course..there was no "plug
and play"

I installed that black split plastic wire conduit..a coupld of 1"
diameter runs over the wires before putting it all back together
again. Got everything working..except for the dash lights...shrug.


Gunner
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"Poor widdle Wudy...mentally ill, lies constantly, doesnt know who he is, or even what gender "he" is.

No more pathetic creature has ever walked the earth. But...he is locked into a mental hospital for the safety of the public.

Which is a very good thing."

Asun rauhassa, valmistaudun sotaan.


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