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Hello Friends,
First, I'd like to thank Roadtrip for all of his help. He has made a few things abundantly clear but my correspondence with him also exposed a couple mysteries.
Alright, so most of my console lights aren't working, i.e. when the hazard flasher is on, the hazard light in the console does not light up.
Upon seeing a picture and an explanation of a schematic from Roadtrip, I know that there are supposed to be four wires hooked up to the hazard switch. A blue, blue/black, a black/white and a connecter with two black wires in the back of it.
This matches up with my 1978 Spider wiring schematic which shows a black/white wire in place of the blue/white wire I have exisiting in my loom!
However, my four wires are blue, blue/black, blue/white and a connector with two black wires. All other wires in my console have been accounted for and properly connected. I plugged the blue/white wire where the black/white cable is supposed to go and the hazard switch works fine, but no hazard light in the console.
So my questions to all of you are, is this blue/white wire a normal replacement for the black/white wire?
and if so, where on earth can I trace the console lighting wire to. I've studied the schematic and it shows the black/white wire going all the way over to the flasher switch mounted to the steering column, but there is no black/white wire leaving the console loom to the main harness which plugs in behind shifter. If this is not a normal replacement...I'm at a loss because the wire is woven into the loom and has a stock connector on it.
The schematic shows the black/white wire connected with the black, a blue/black wire and a red wire connected to the flasher. I looked under the dash and sure enough it is wired as described in the schematic. So, according to the schematic, this black/white wire is supposed to run all the way into the console and plug into my hazard switch (which it does not). A blue/white wire does.
It should be noted that the parking brake light, the throttle light, the exh. temp light and the fasten seatbelt light work, (I haven't checked the exh. temp in a while, unplugged the bulb a long time ago), but none of these lights have the black/white wire of mystery connected to them. All of the other lights that don't work (such as the defrost light, wiper light, heater control light and hazard warning light) have the black/white wire of mystery which is woven through the console loom but does not go up and connect to the harness.
Going nuts here, Friends. I am not usually this much of a stickler, but after all of the trouble I've gone to get this thing looking like new...a few light bulbs have become my archnemesis.
I have included some pictures for reference and thanks for your time in reading this and helping me out.
Warm Regards,
-George
First, I'd like to thank Roadtrip for all of his help. He has made a few things abundantly clear but my correspondence with him also exposed a couple mysteries.
Alright, so most of my console lights aren't working, i.e. when the hazard flasher is on, the hazard light in the console does not light up.
Upon seeing a picture and an explanation of a schematic from Roadtrip, I know that there are supposed to be four wires hooked up to the hazard switch. A blue, blue/black, a black/white and a connecter with two black wires in the back of it.
This matches up with my 1978 Spider wiring schematic which shows a black/white wire in place of the blue/white wire I have exisiting in my loom!
However, my four wires are blue, blue/black, blue/white and a connector with two black wires. All other wires in my console have been accounted for and properly connected. I plugged the blue/white wire where the black/white cable is supposed to go and the hazard switch works fine, but no hazard light in the console.
So my questions to all of you are, is this blue/white wire a normal replacement for the black/white wire?
and if so, where on earth can I trace the console lighting wire to. I've studied the schematic and it shows the black/white wire going all the way over to the flasher switch mounted to the steering column, but there is no black/white wire leaving the console loom to the main harness which plugs in behind shifter. If this is not a normal replacement...I'm at a loss because the wire is woven into the loom and has a stock connector on it.
The schematic shows the black/white wire connected with the black, a blue/black wire and a red wire connected to the flasher. I looked under the dash and sure enough it is wired as described in the schematic. So, according to the schematic, this black/white wire is supposed to run all the way into the console and plug into my hazard switch (which it does not). A blue/white wire does.
It should be noted that the parking brake light, the throttle light, the exh. temp light and the fasten seatbelt light work, (I haven't checked the exh. temp in a while, unplugged the bulb a long time ago), but none of these lights have the black/white wire of mystery connected to them. All of the other lights that don't work (such as the defrost light, wiper light, heater control light and hazard warning light) have the black/white wire of mystery which is woven through the console loom but does not go up and connect to the harness.
Going nuts here, Friends. I am not usually this much of a stickler, but after all of the trouble I've gone to get this thing looking like new...a few light bulbs have become my archnemesis.
I have included some pictures for reference and thanks for your time in reading this and helping me out.
Warm Regards,
-George
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