boomhauer
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Vancouver Island
Well, i was blowing the number 2, 20amp fuse in the PDC every single time i applied the brakes.
Full lights and signals till the brake pedal is tapped. Thought i had fixed said problem when i found some burnt wire along the rear seat over where the cat/muff would sit (hehe).
Anywho, worked again, no probs.
Then of course, it starts doing it again. I did all the "normal" tests, brake switch, trailer lighting/wiring, tail light bulbs/sockets, checking fuses and whatnot. Then i say fock this and start ripping into the under dash wiring and the wiring along the left side ahead of where i found the burnt stuff before. Well :doh: the tail light wires are so fried and melted that i had bare wire on the tail light wires from way up under the dash from where the wires come up from the brake switch all the way down the side past the B pillar.
As i start tearing into this mess i kept finding other wires that were scorched and chased one on up to the ignition switch as well.
Now that i'm right in the middle of this, all bad wire gone and about to re-wire the inside to a few connectors and fuse block, i can finally reveal what i deem to be the problem.
I had an alarm installed with a car starter (Python) and an immobilizer (mandatory back in Manitoba when i lived there.)
I'm the original owner of my 1996 Sport, picked her out myself! I know what's been done to the truck from day 1. The ONLY 2 items that i have not personally had a hand in were the alarm and immobilizer.
Used to be when i started the vehicle with the command start and pressed the brake, the vehicle WOULD/SHOULD shut off; part of the theft deterent built in. I moved out to Vancouver Island and never thought about fixing the car starter as long as the alarm worked now that i'm not in -38c plus windchill giving -45c + temps. BUT, the alarm would go off randomly for no apparent reason when armed, although it was usually night time and i'm in bed so i figure damn cat jumping on it or whatever.
So as I ripped out the immobilizer and car starter and while tracing the installations on these, they led to EVERY one of EVERY burnt wire i came across! I'm so lucky that i was never stranded or that my XJ was burnt to a crisp, because i would've needed a full-on Halon system to put out all the wiring that was burnt/melted/charred/open or just cracked from the heat of these pathetic systems and their installers.
The XJ is about 5lbs of wire and shitty black boxes lighter now.:wow:
I am going to wire in MY own theft deterrent and NO ONE will ever touch my rig again other than myself (frickin' gov't programs!)!
So if you blow fuses and weird sh!t is happening and you have these types of systems messing/splicing/re-wiring going on in your vehicle, take a good hard look at those as they MAY be your Gremlins too. -B
Full lights and signals till the brake pedal is tapped. Thought i had fixed said problem when i found some burnt wire along the rear seat over where the cat/muff would sit (hehe).
Anywho, worked again, no probs.
Then of course, it starts doing it again. I did all the "normal" tests, brake switch, trailer lighting/wiring, tail light bulbs/sockets, checking fuses and whatnot. Then i say fock this and start ripping into the under dash wiring and the wiring along the left side ahead of where i found the burnt stuff before. Well :doh: the tail light wires are so fried and melted that i had bare wire on the tail light wires from way up under the dash from where the wires come up from the brake switch all the way down the side past the B pillar.
As i start tearing into this mess i kept finding other wires that were scorched and chased one on up to the ignition switch as well.
Now that i'm right in the middle of this, all bad wire gone and about to re-wire the inside to a few connectors and fuse block, i can finally reveal what i deem to be the problem.
I had an alarm installed with a car starter (Python) and an immobilizer (mandatory back in Manitoba when i lived there.)
I'm the original owner of my 1996 Sport, picked her out myself! I know what's been done to the truck from day 1. The ONLY 2 items that i have not personally had a hand in were the alarm and immobilizer.
Used to be when i started the vehicle with the command start and pressed the brake, the vehicle WOULD/SHOULD shut off; part of the theft deterent built in. I moved out to Vancouver Island and never thought about fixing the car starter as long as the alarm worked now that i'm not in -38c plus windchill giving -45c + temps. BUT, the alarm would go off randomly for no apparent reason when armed, although it was usually night time and i'm in bed so i figure damn cat jumping on it or whatever.
So as I ripped out the immobilizer and car starter and while tracing the installations on these, they led to EVERY one of EVERY burnt wire i came across! I'm so lucky that i was never stranded or that my XJ was burnt to a crisp, because i would've needed a full-on Halon system to put out all the wiring that was burnt/melted/charred/open or just cracked from the heat of these pathetic systems and their installers.
The XJ is about 5lbs of wire and shitty black boxes lighter now.:wow:
I am going to wire in MY own theft deterrent and NO ONE will ever touch my rig again other than myself (frickin' gov't programs!)!
So if you blow fuses and weird sh!t is happening and you have these types of systems messing/splicing/re-wiring going on in your vehicle, take a good hard look at those as they MAY be your Gremlins too. -B
