Wiring Fail

[t18drifts]

ok sounds easy

:fuzz:

[kangaroosa]

how would i go about fabricating a test light :laff:

 

 

It would cost you more to make one than to buy. You can pick one up for as little as $5

[t18drifts]

ok so i been fidling around trying to no what I'm doing ALL THE FUSSES ARE FINE so i muster shorted out the stereo and tacho ffs :bash:

[jono1986]

ok so i been fidling around trying to no what I'm doing ALL THE FUSSES ARE FINE so i muster shorted out the stereo and tacho ffs :bash:

 

If all your fuses are fine, you haven't shorted anything out. Just go back over all the colours and where they go (using the wiring diagram), and make sure that the illumination wire isn't shorting out on anything either (if you haven't connected it).

 

It's really going over things and eliminating what could be wrong.

 

Make sure that your going to the negative side of the coil and not the positive, like triple check.

[t18drifts]

how is black the negative wire hmm but i totaly fuked stereo thats all normal how it should be with wiring and it doent even turn on

[jono1986]

how is black the negative wire hmm but i totaly fuked stereo thats all normal how it should be with wiring and it doent even turn on

 

ummmm run all new wires mate, straight from the battery. Red for positive Black for negative, then any colour from the coil........

 

Cars cost money man, don't spend any there gonna get f@$ked up and yes i know "you love doing it". Get a better job or more hours so that you can afford to pay someone to do this, or ask someone on here how to do it BEFORE you touch anything. Look for an apprenticeship or something man.

[t18drifts]

yeah thanks for the advice I'm trying to get a mechanics apprentaship like trying realy hard :glare: but i keep geeting fuked around

[t18drifts]

so i went to and had another crack at it this afteernoon and got the cool tacho to work then went on to the tailights and undid the interior to get to there was wirse every were nothing was soldered ever thing had been done with thingers and tape i checked all the globes there fine and just to make things even better all my indacators and instrument cluster lights are gorn but the brake light work and the front head lamps I'm slowly getting there and learning :yes: which is good

[t18drifts]

help would be nice guys

:huh:

[beerhead]

Hey, I'd check the short length of 3 wires from the battery(+) terminal to a 3 pin plug (for some reason toyota used wire as a fuseable link) I bet you've melted one of them if all the fuses are good.

 

No need to run new power feeds straight from the battery and the coil for the tacho too. All the feeds can be stolen from the factory gauge feeds, as tacho's use SFA power. There's a tacho feed already running to the cluster too.

 

Hope this helps. electrics and forums don't get much response, because it's painful enough finding gremlins when you're fiddling with the car hands on.

[t18drifts]

yeah thanks man cold u get a picture of what ure talking about that would help heaps and ive treid heaps but i can't get in behind the instruments sigh and yeah the indicators have stoped no light on the dash or on outside or ticking noise and no tail lights when i turn the the lights on our dash back lights except battery hi beam and a few over things like hand brake ect wouldnt have anything with shit grounding would it :hmm:

[beerhead]

I'll get a pic in the morning, but if you look at the + terminal you should find the 3 pin plug and the short length of wire running from the battery to it. Get a test light or a multi meter and make sure they're still all getting power.

[t18drifts]

awwk and if that aint it I'm going to an auto electrician maybe lol BUT THE TACHO AND SHIFT LIGHT WORKS .so anoying when u fix somthing and in the process somthing decides to stop working i LOVE CARS :dance: