4kq burned wire from wrong relay in fuel pump relay spot

[Chris Hall]

Funny... you'd think that since they're all brown (ground) wires that
they could all be shorted and everything would still work fine since
they all wind up terminating on the chassis, etc and "touch" that way
anyway.

I too hate taking the dash apart on these cars.  I'd pay $200 for some
old video footage of how the people in the factory were able to hook
the damn speedo cable on car after car on an assembly line... that's
harder than putting an AR-15 assault rifle together in the dark and
under water I bet  lol

On 6/22/05, Kneale Brownson <kneale at coslink.net> wrote:
> I've traced the burned brown wire from position 31 in the fuse/relay tray.
> It goes into a wad of browns bunched together in a separate little harness
> wrapped up in the main harness to the instrument cluster.  There's one huge
> brown coming out of that cluster and half a dozen smaller ones.  The biggie
> goes to the (I presume) main body ground under the A pillar on the driver
> side.  The rest go hither and yon into various directions.  There aren't
> any other burned browns, just the one from the fuse tray.
> 
> So I'm going to splice in a new brown wire to run to the connector for the
> fuse tray and check really carefully that the hot brown didn't burn its way
> into any of the other wires that it got stuck to.  A quick general look
> indicates it just melted its own insulation and that's what stuck it to the
> other wires.
> 
> As a reminder, this releasing of the smoke in the wires came from my
> foolishly taking someone else's advice that I could put any old relay in
> the fuel pump relay position.  YOU CAN'T DO THAT, FOLKS, just like Huw
> reminded recently.
> 
> As an aside, getting a full look at the harness required removal of the
> HVAC tube to the driver side dash outlet.  To get that POS loose, you have
> to take out the center console (and what a contortionist's nightmare THAT
> process is) as well as the dash vents.  I also pulled the instrument
> console, another PITA.  I thought Team Doorhandle did a bang-up job of
> making things a mess, but this dash/console/HVAC/wiring tangle is really a
> challenge to even temperments.  I'm not looking forward to reassembly.
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