My cruise control and aux lights weren't working on my last little trip so today I had some time to investigate courtesy of my wife watching the kids today.
I took off the left side lower and middle cowl, the cc wiring and vacuum apparatus is located there. I then traced wiring and found a green wire not attached, so I reattached it and tested thinking this is great I'm already done. Thought to soon.
No joy so I kept looking at wiring and followed power back to battery for the lights, making sure all attachments were solid and in good order. I found another wire that had wedged itself against the frame in front where the left side glove box attaches to the inner cowl. It was pinched in between pretty tightly and it was either broken or it broke when I wiggles it free. I reconnected that one and tested still no joy.
I checked fuses that I could find and also the connections to the fuze block in the back all good that I could see.
At this point I called Clearwater and Billy, who had helped to install the wiring for the lighting helped me run through troubleshooting the lights and relay and the switch by running power to them from the battery directly. All good not relay or lights or wiring for their volt light.
So I took off the right cowl to check the purple wire from the cruise and to check the wiring better to relay and also took off the dash and windscreen to follow some more wiring, as well as lifting the tank up to get at the entire wiring bunch running back towards battery.
I found the radar light wire sheared off so reattached that, checked anything I could see.
Back to the left side I stared for awhile and figured that a wire from the cc switch and the aux switch seemed to share some intersections. One connection was with a car splitter(?) and looked pretty severed inside. So I put a posiconnector on it to reattach the green wire and ran the red wire into the bottom thinking this has to be it. Nope.
It seemed to me there was a ground loose or a power wire not connecting somewhere in the green red wire juncture because that was the only place both those two things came together.
I saw this plastic tube thing that turns out to be a fuse. I had missed it before because I was dialed in to look for a more normal to me fuse. I didn't recognize it as a fuse and so it escaped my first run of fuse checks.
It pushes in and twists to revel a fuse, very small thread of wire and for my old eyes to hard to read. It had f2a250vl
Written on it and was clearly blown. I ran to the auto parts store nearest me and had a kid read it. They had a package of replacements and as soon as I maneuvered the fuse back in place everything worked just fine.
I was very happy to have figured it out, and glad to have fixed some wiring while looking around.
I took off the left side lower and middle cowl, the cc wiring and vacuum apparatus is located there. I then traced wiring and found a green wire not attached, so I reattached it and tested thinking this is great I'm already done. Thought to soon.
No joy so I kept looking at wiring and followed power back to battery for the lights, making sure all attachments were solid and in good order. I found another wire that had wedged itself against the frame in front where the left side glove box attaches to the inner cowl. It was pinched in between pretty tightly and it was either broken or it broke when I wiggles it free. I reconnected that one and tested still no joy.
I checked fuses that I could find and also the connections to the fuze block in the back all good that I could see.
At this point I called Clearwater and Billy, who had helped to install the wiring for the lighting helped me run through troubleshooting the lights and relay and the switch by running power to them from the battery directly. All good not relay or lights or wiring for their volt light.
So I took off the right cowl to check the purple wire from the cruise and to check the wiring better to relay and also took off the dash and windscreen to follow some more wiring, as well as lifting the tank up to get at the entire wiring bunch running back towards battery.
I found the radar light wire sheared off so reattached that, checked anything I could see.
Back to the left side I stared for awhile and figured that a wire from the cc switch and the aux switch seemed to share some intersections. One connection was with a car splitter(?) and looked pretty severed inside. So I put a posiconnector on it to reattach the green wire and ran the red wire into the bottom thinking this has to be it. Nope.
It seemed to me there was a ground loose or a power wire not connecting somewhere in the green red wire juncture because that was the only place both those two things came together.
I saw this plastic tube thing that turns out to be a fuse. I had missed it before because I was dialed in to look for a more normal to me fuse. I didn't recognize it as a fuse and so it escaped my first run of fuse checks.
It pushes in and twists to revel a fuse, very small thread of wire and for my old eyes to hard to read. It had f2a250vl
Written on it and was clearly blown. I ran to the auto parts store nearest me and had a kid read it. They had a package of replacements and as soon as I maneuvered the fuse back in place everything worked just fine.
I was very happy to have figured it out, and glad to have fixed some wiring while looking around.