Would you have any idea on some kind of price stuff like that could range into at dealership? I have 1 friend who says he can do wiring harnesses.. he said hes real patient with it all, which im not..

Since it's only the lights acting up would it be the dash/lights/radio, etc harness? How would I know the exact harness to find and buy?

What types of tips would you give if going to do this on my own or with friends help, anything in particular?

Thanks for the help

 

Found a 96-97 "under dash/radio" wiring harness on ebay.. it's for an EX model though while mine is LX.. would it work, or not?

If not.. gotta keep lookin! lol

 

I got the glove compartment off, and the harness that comes from the rear of CD Player that travels up and to the right towards glove compartment.. seems to be ok as far as I can see.. so between CD Player and up as far as I could see w/o removing glove compartment I already cut and capped (I won't ever use 'dimmer' feature for my CD Player anyway).

I still will be taking off take/loom and checking beyond that, but it might require removing AC/Head components under there.. (Would be a good time to clean out the evaporator for the AC Smell?)

Then.. on the driver side, where the harness comes from the combo switch down to the area near the fuse box, I can see where it travels up and through the firewall. Lots of tape/loom in my way, and laying on the ground Ants were biting me.. but when I can remove that tape, I Know I'm going to find more melted wires (like I did 6" or so from the harness plug going in that direction as far as I could see/reach) and hopefully the bad spots may stop before the firewall.. if not, more crap to go through. If I can locate all of the bad spots, I'll replace bad wires if necessary, or for tiny nicks in the wire/outer covering, I will slice some heatshrink and protect it.

Wish me luck..

 

Dude, I wish you so much luck! You are embarking on quite the endeavor, but your car looks really cool so it will be worth it.

 

Thanks alot! Thats the reason I HAVE to fix this, there is so much done to this car with the air cylinders, wheels, etc.. that theres no way I could sell it and get anywhere near what Id want. I gotta suck it up, and do what I can to fix it.. Its a perfect little car except for this problem..

 

**Dealership would be an expensive endever...don't forget that they charge by the hour and that will get very high in the $$$$$

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The harness that comes from the blue plug, on driver side.. it curves up and over the fuse box, then above what i THINK is a cruise control box (metal/rectangular) then it curves up and goes across behind a flemsy plastic piece. will i be able to access the wiring if i remove the gauge cluster? seems to be the spot

i know exactly which wires are the problem now.. the red/black (parking/tail lights) is crossed with the passenger side blinker (green with some stripe im pretty sure) and ive seen it/peeled them apart. nothing else is a problem right now, other than.. when no lights are on, and you use passenger side blinker, it flashes everything (because it's crossed with red/black which controls tails/parking/dash gauges) so then, when lights are ON (red/black) hot.. the blinker bulb/arrow on gauge are constant on since the red/black is giving the green, etc power constantly instead of a flashing period.

those would be the symtpoms of the parking light wire being crossed with a turn signal wire, sound correct?

 

Sorry I'm not quite sure where it goes to from there, in this case just removing the dash might make a huge difference.... I've been out having surgery for a week but from the conversation I assume that just prior to this problem you got the tail lights working properly? what was the fix?

 

where the red/black was constant hot, when not supposed to be, it was crossed with the red/green somehow.. so i cut the red/green and ran a new power source going to the combo switch. everything worked fine then, i just made it so the old green red wasn't hot, by pulling the fuse.. and the red/black is now only hot when the combo switch is used to turn it on. my only problem.. forgot to use an inline fuse on that new power, so then when this all happened.. the red/black fried, taking other wires with it fuse would have prevented it.

 

I get it now... sorry to hear that man... I'm glad that you were able to fix the tail light issue though!! Just be glad that it didn't start a fire