sorry, I thought I mentioned that it is a '71. As far as I can tell the
wiring was unaltered by the PO. I looked more closely through the diagram
once I got home and it looks like there is a three wire junction after the
ignition switch on the white circuit. One wire appears to the fuel pump and
then to the green fuse. This seems to cover all of the things that went
bad. I'm off to have a look now. We'll see how it goes.
james
----- Original Message -----
From: <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
To: james <jamesnazarian@netzero.net>; mgs <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: 28 March, 2002 9:30 AM
Subject: Re: meltdown
> The gauges should be on the green. But the green is fused off the white
so
> if the white fails so does the green. The ignition is also on the white,
so
> if the engine continued to run then this part of the white, at least, must
> have been OK. Lights were always off the brown, and for a few years
around
> 1973 wipers, washers and heater fan came off the accessories position of
the
> ignition switch (i.e. switched brown) via their own in-line fuse. So if
> yours is circa 73 everything figures except the ignition continuing to
work.
> But who knows what changes a PO might have made.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "james" <jamesnazarian@netzero.net>
> To: "mgs" <mgs@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2002 5:47 AM
> Subject: meltdown
>
>
> > Tonight on my way home I had many bad things happen all at once. I lost
> > gauges, brake lights, turn signals, and fuel pump. I retained
everything
> > else, ignition, gauge lights, head lights, heater, etc. I find this
> troubling
> > because gauges and fuel pump are on white circuit with ignition, and all
> the
> > rest are on green with the remainder of the stuff I retained.
> >
> > It would appear that I lost half of the white circuit and half the green
> at
> > the same time. Can anyone shed some light on this? There has to be one
> > common link between all of these things that I haven't found yet because
> this
> > car has been electrically reliable for years.
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