Hey Guys,

I am having a strange Electrical problem and sorted thru Wires for about 3 hours today and was unable to track it down.

What happens is when I turn my Left Turn Signal On my Temp gauge rises and falls with the blink of the turn signal, If I turn on the high Beams the left signal indicator on the dash lights up dimmly. If I put the car into reverse the Fuse pops for that Circuit(Which controls Turn Signals, Tach, Temp gauge)

I cannot find any grounded wires and they only thing has changed recently is my Starter broke and I replaced it. Since that time the problem has surfaced.

The starter replacement could have been a coincidence since it failed due to someone leaving 1 of the mounting bolts out

This happened to anyone else? Tomorrow I am going to pick up a Gauge Cluster from a friend of mine in case thats the culprit. Any Ideas?

BTW this is a 1988 CRX with a ZC....MPFI Wiring has been installed for Over 2 years now with no problems....Car runs and drive like it always has.....but now its inspection time and I cant pass with this mess going on

Please help

Thanks in Advance,
Mike
'88 CRX "ZC REX"

 

Take off your Gauge Cluster and see if you fried something in the back of it. I fried my starter one day and saw a puff of smoke come from my cluster bezel. I looked back behind it and the wires for it melted apart.

 

I'll check it tomorrow and swap the Cluster, Thanks for the tip!

Anyother ideas?

 

Take it out to a field and blow it up . haha, anyway, my best guess is that it is the female spaid connector on the starter next to the main power nut. I assume its a ground wire, i left mine off once and it did some very strange things. Also, another idea could be the ground wire on the main fuse panel on the shock tower. I forgot to hook that back up once on a motor swap and it lead to some seriously goofy things. Just my $.02

Brett

 

Dragged this post out from the dead because im having a similar problem.
When I put the car into reverse the temp gauge shoots up and then the fuse pops. This has only happened since I swapped in an LS.
Anyone have some ideas?


Modified by baruba at 3:22 PM 4/30/2004