82 CGT Wiring Woes

[Kneale Brownson]

If you wade through the Russian ETKA site 
at  http://catalog.exist.ru/  (you pick your year, hit "next",  pick your 
model, hit "next", pick Electrical, hit "next", etc.),  you can get pix of 
various wiring looms and their connecting points.



At 03:04 PM 06/24/2001 -0400, George Selby wrote:

>Well, I got the clutch release bearing replaced, the tranny in and the car 
>drives and moves under it's own power.  I started checking things to see 
>if I could get the car inspected.  My first check was the lights.  They 
>don't work.  Then I checked the wipers, also no dice.  While I was sitting 
>there idling the light switch started smoking and melted around the 
>harness connector.  Then the radiator started making noises  and all of a 
>sudden there was a miniature volcano under the hood (So there were two 
>eruptions last night, one in the Philippines and one in my front 
>yard.)  Coolant everywhere.  The radiator fan wasn't on at all.  The 
>drivers side window doesn't work, but you can see the voltmeter move when 
>you press the button.
>
>On the positive side the brake lights and 3 of the 4 turn signals work, 
>most of the dash guages and lights work (except the temp guage apparently) 
>and the HVAC system does work.  134 converted AC blasted out the cold 
>air.  Glad I didn't bother replacing the clutch, because this one is very 
>good.  The passenger window works.
>
>This CGT has had a conversion to an later model (85 or thereabouts) dash 
>and console.  The fusebox was also changed.  It looks like some of the 
>wiring was swapped over, but most of the 85 switches are spliced.  The 
>dash gauges aren't spliced, however.
>
>After this set back, I whipped out my multimeter and started checking 
>things out.  The radiator fan connector at the fan was melted and 
>destroyed.  Even if I jumpered the thermo-switch or the relay directly 
>(which showed +12V at the relay) the fan won't kick on.  I still need to 
>hook it right to the battery and see if it works at all.
>
>I then moved to the lights.  If you run a continuity check from the light 
>terminal itself to the fusebox, the wires aren't in the right location, 
>and several are tied together inappropriately.  At the switch, there is 
>all kinds of chaos, with no wire going to the right location, even though 
>all the wires are connected to the same color wire.  Also under the hood 
>near the lights several wires are just cut in two, for no apparent 
>reason.  While performing this fix, I'm going to switch the headlights 
>over to run off relays.
>
>Basically I have determined a nimrod did the wiring swap.  I have access 
>to a 84 4000 S at the local junkyard and it is fairly complete (complete 
>front end with lights, fenders, bumper and all there, very tempting.  I'm 
>definitely taking the wheels, they are the 20 or so multispokers on a 
>4x100 pattern.  There is also a 80's 5k, I might be able to use some stuff 
>from it (rad stuff, right?)
>
>I have a Bentley manual for my year CGT (1983) and can follow the wiring 
>pretty well.  However, I need a copy or fax or something of a 84-86 CGT 
>wiring diagram so I can figure out what to do about the swap.  Can anyone 
>help me out?
>
>
>George Selby
>70 F-100 Ranger XLT 400 C6
>78 F-150 4x4 400 4 spd
>83 Audi Coupe GT
>86 Nissan 300ZX
>92 Subaru Legacy Wagon AWD
>gselby4x4 at earthlink.net
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