[urq] (no subject)

[Scott Justusson]

 In the 7 urqs I've owned, and another dozen or so I worked on, 'grounding' of the tail lights rarely if ever solves the dim tail light problem.  If the redundant ground was already added, it's not a ground problem.  Futher, if the test is the socket, just ground the meter somewhere else, bet the voltage doesn't change, because I have only seen it change once.  Me, I'd be looking upstream.

First, wiggle the back of the fuse block (assuming this is the ceramic type), that would be plug F IIRC.  90% of the time, the lights come back on = Likely fried pin in the F connector.  Next, try feeding battery voltage at the fuse block to the tail lights and measure your voltage again.  Got a dollar it's battery voltage with OR without the aux ground connected.

Next is to either check voltage out of the light switch, or just skip and go right for the relay of the running lights, and take all running/marker lights off the fuse block all together.  This is exactly what I did when wiring Hackl Pikes Peak Car 5, and the tail lights with all 83 stock wiring from the relay back were brighter than my 87.5CGT with the same mod.

If the brake lights exhibit the same symptom, rinse rather repeat the same diagnostics.

I say 8 volts at the power side is not a ground problem, never was.

Just sayin, HTH, and IME

Scott J
84 urq
83 urq

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: dgraber460 <dgraber460 at aol.com>
To: David.Schaible <David.Schaible at jrspharma.com>; urq <urq at audifans.com>
Sent: Fri, Mar 7, 2014 7:34 pm
Subject: Re: [urq] (no subject)


Since I wasn't sure just what was happening I was _real_ polite!
I didn't even say "bad cop - no doughnut".


I did the taillight ground upgrade using the top tab to chassis years ago and 
checked those first. They look fine.
So still looking for a culprit.


Dennis 
Denver