bad66chevelle454
Feb 12th, 07, 12:34 AM
Its a bit of a story, so please bear with me.
The fuel gauge doesnt work, so I pull the wire on the sending unit, and hook up a test light. Not getting any power. So I crawl under the dash, and see the fuse is still good, but hook up a test light and see that Im not getting power to that slot on the fuse block. The rest of the block is getting power.
So at this point I pull out the wiring diagram. I see that there is a Tan, and Pink wire that hooks up to the gauge. The tan wire is the wire that hooks up to the sending unit. According to the wiring diagram, the pink wire also powers all the idiot lights, then the pink wire goes into the fuse block. It comes out of the fuse block, and goes to the ignition. There isnt a pink wire coming out of the ignition switch, on the car, or on the wiring diagram. I hooked the test light up again to that slot on the fuse block, and hit the start position, and it lit up. So my gauges slot only gets power when its on the start position. Is it possible that pink wire is hooked up to the wrong spot on the ignition switch? I tried to pull it off the plug that goes into the ignition switch, except I cant seem to. It has some rubber connector. Any ideas?
The fuel gauge doesnt work, so I pull the wire on the sending unit, and hook up a test light. Not getting any power. So I crawl under the dash, and see the fuse is still good, but hook up a test light and see that Im not getting power to that slot on the fuse block. The rest of the block is getting power.
So at this point I pull out the wiring diagram. I see that there is a Tan, and Pink wire that hooks up to the gauge. The tan wire is the wire that hooks up to the sending unit. According to the wiring diagram, the pink wire also powers all the idiot lights, then the pink wire goes into the fuse block. It comes out of the fuse block, and goes to the ignition. There isnt a pink wire coming out of the ignition switch, on the car, or on the wiring diagram. I hooked the test light up again to that slot on the fuse block, and hit the start position, and it lit up. So my gauges slot only gets power when its on the start position. Is it possible that pink wire is hooked up to the wrong spot on the ignition switch? I tried to pull it off the plug that goes into the ignition switch, except I cant seem to. It has some rubber connector. Any ideas?