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Old 07-17-2004, 06:51 AM   #22
e2helper
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Re: no lights in dash panel

Well that means that it requires the park/tail lamp circuit to be energized to blow fuse which makes sense but doesn't help.

I looked what I provided you already and you have everything you need for schematics (but as a reminder).
http://www.geocities.com/raj380/mali...buextlight.pdf
The first page is one we are initially interested in.

This shows how the park lamp circuit gets is distributed inside the vehicle. Since this is a little easier to access I would start here rather than underhood for next step.

It might be a good idea to disconnect negative battery cable at battery before proceding. This is the safest way to disconnect battery power from your vehicle (by the way)

Here are more details on what are called pinouts for each of the electrical centers connector in vehicle
http://www.geocities.com/raj380/mali.../becpinout.pdf

This helps you better understand the pinout and what each connector looks like. We are focusing on Fuse Block Right IP, C3 (pages 10-12) and circuit #9

I would recommend first locating the right hand IP electrical center

http://www.geocities.com/raj380/mali...icalcenter.pdf

Just disconnect the one visible connector (C3) -it is bolted on and requires 7 mm driver. You don't need to disassembly any further. Then probe the 3 cavities of that connector for 9 circuit with your multimeter that go to the rear lighting in vehicle for resistance to ground (there should be some ground ring terminal in area you are working in). The cavities are A4 (left rear lamp), B4 (license lamp) and C4 (right rear lamp). I don't know what resistances you are going to see so report back. Anything that is < 1 ohm will be suspicious. It is possible the problem is not in these circuits but somewhere else but check these first. Before you put this connector back in place also probe one of the corresponding blades of the electrical center itself that connect to any of these terminals in the harness connector and measure resistance to ground on it. If you didn't see any low resistances on the wires you measured likely this circuit will show <1 ohm but it is going to rest of vehicle so more diagnosis is required.

The next step will be to remove this electrical center from IP (see instructions) so that you can disconnect connector C2 and probe the wiring in these 4 cavities (A9, B9, C9, C10). Same thing, resistance to ground. Look for something <1 ohm

It is unfortunate the brown wire broke off going to your left lamp cavity D (park lamp). That is going to have to be repaired at some point. You should reinstall the light blue/black wire back into connector cavity A. That wire is used for the Left Rear Turn Signal.
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