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(Message started by: irratic on May 9^th, 2006, 8:22pm)

Title: still electrics problems
Post by irratic on May 9^th, 2006, 8:22pm

dried out fuse boxes, still no difference at all, think i have a dead short somewhere. everytime i turn ignition off the dash ( ignition, abs, seaqtbelt ,door open oil light ) stay on.????? if you remove fuse 16 from the main fuse box the lights go out but return the minute you put the fuse back in......anyone got any ideas??? more's the point can some supply me with a good wiring diagram so i can go threw it???????

Title: Re: still electrics problems
Post by Simmo on May 9^th, 2006, 9:27pm

Try this. http://www.carsoft.ru/avtorepair/sierra_el.html. It says Sierra but it is for the Scorpio.

Title: Re: still electrics problems
Post by irratic on May 10^th, 2006, 12:07am

cheers simmo i'll have a go at that

Title: Re: still electrics problems
Post by irratic on May 10^th, 2006, 8:01pm

sorted elecrics, if anyone in the same boat..... beleive it or not it was a bad connection on the wiper motor????????strange but true...

Title: Re: still electrics problems
Post by sector-9 on May 10^th, 2006, 8:14pm

Who'd have thought, eh? Thanks for letting us know though, might save somebody else a lot of grief in future.

Just out of interest, how did you find the problem? Did you notice it visually whilst checking something else in the same area, by reading the wiring diagrams, or just plain old process of elimination (i.e. pulling out other fuses/relays randomly!)??

Darren

Title: Re: still electrics problems
Post by irratic on May 10^th, 2006, 8:32pm

well mate, i was doing the process of ellimination. disconecting multi plugs etc.started near fusebox...i no that when i pulled fuse16 the lights went off and i could hear a relay click. pulled the wires off the interior fan, nothing. as i was putting them back on i heard the relay click and the lights were off,then they just came back on so start bending the wires from there back towards the fusebox. gently pulling each loom.and eventually discovered it was the wiper....