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[Steinbru@VNET.IBM.COM]

Ref:  Your note of Sun, 7 Feb 1999 12:32:47 -0800
Re:   5000 questions

Matt <mjammann@ibm.net> said:
>...a newly acquired 87 5000.  These cars are cool...
You betcha' and habit forming also.  You've started on the long
slide towards complete submission. BTDoingT.

>The middle yellow display light came on yesterday w/ a goofy
>looking glyph which looks like a flask, with a couple of jets
>squirting out the top and to

Windshield washer reservoir low

>Also, the dash lights do not work.  I saw the recommendation in a
>FAQ to check the glovebox light and the license plate light bulbs.
>Sure enough neither of these lights work, but the bulbs are good.
>Also the fuse is good, and the flashers, which are on the same
>fuse, work.  Any advice as to where to look next?

In the trunk, where the wire bundle passes thru the left hinge.
Prolly "no LP lights" is caused by this, and in turn the "no dash
lights" is caused by that.  Get the LP lights working before you
dig further on the dash.  Using the glove box trick allows a sneak
ground path to put your dash lights on when the LP lights are out.
If your GB light is out for some other reason it might not work.

Get some wire loom and do a good repair on those wires in the trunk
or you'll lose lots of fuses and have no backups etc.

>figure I need to remove the instrument cluster to check the
>reostat(which I'd do the other first.

Do the other first.
--Gary