86 5KCS Self Check System

[Richard J. Andrews]

sounds like bad alternator check the brushes,
mom's 5000 did this 2 days before the alternator took a dump.

HTH!
rich
'86 4kq

At 09:57 PM 4/6/02, you wrote:
>On my wife's 86 5KTQW an odd thing is happening with the self check
>system, the one that flashes OK or the various symbols for faults.  Much
>of the time (but not always) there is a combination of low gas and one
>of the symbols with a triangle on together.  Both appear fainter than
>normal. (and the gas is not low nor are there any other faults that I am
>aware of to be reported)
>
>Any guesses as to what this might be.  I plan on bulling the dash with
>the light box for the warnings to look for crossed wires or whatever.
>But I would appreciate if someone knows where the "brains" for this
>system lies so that I can check that too.
>
>TIA