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catfishjn69
Member Joined: 04 Mar. 2021 Location: indy Status: Offline Points: 38 |
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Posted: 17 Sep. 2021 at 9:37pm |
alright i am working on my 46 fixing broken wires and what ever i find.
the jeep has 2 solenoids one for the starter set up like normal the other one the big pole is connected to the battery side of the first solenoid and the other side is connected to the ammeter. that is the only wire on that side of the ammeter. the control wire is coming from the accessory side of the 4 pole starter switch. so the ammeter has power coming in from solenoid #2 after the ignition is on then power leaves the ammeter to the light switch, power for the blower on the heater core, horn, flasher for the turn signals and alternator i am assuming they didnt want power to all the things unless the power was on open to ideas why someone would do this ? thanks
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cpt logger
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Well, my guess is that they did not want power to anything without the ignition switch turned on. Of course the horn is still on, but nothing else is. I suspect that they had something draining the battery with everything turned off & this was their way of isolating the battery from the Jeep. These shorts can be hard to find, especially if they are intermittent. Personally, when I need to stop a battery from draining due to unknown or untraceable intermittent shorts, I remove the negative battery cable from the battery. But that is more work than just turning the ignition switch off. Eventually I find the problem & fix the short. They probably could not find it & this was their fix. It works until the short burns up the wiring while the Jeep is running.
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catfishjn69
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thats kinda what i was thinking just alot of work
seems like it would be easier to trace the draw
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Rus Curtis
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PO's do strange things. I had a perfectly functioning dimmer switch on the floor that didn't have anything wired to it but the PO wired the hi beams into the first notch on the light switch.......
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Rus Curtis
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