orangerex81

Well me gauge lights stopped working the guage works fine and all my other light turn on exept the gauge lights the fuse is not blow either if somone knows what wronge can you tell me how to fix it as well thanks

IanS

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Make sure and check if your parking lights work. If not then your parking light fuse may have blown. This happened to me one day out of the blue.

orangerex81

it's not the fuses and all my lights work all of them but the gauge lights my turn signals lights work and all my warning lights work just the lights for me to see the gauge a night are the only ones not working

waysrx7

I'm going to say busted light.

Dan_s_young

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This may seem out there but has happened to a few people here (including me back in the day).

By any chance did you hook the 2 wires under the shifter trim together? This blows the dimmer switch and causes the dash lights to not function. If this is the case you can just simpily bypass the dimmer (rheostat) and have the lights at full intensity.

orangerex81

yea i hook a dvd 7" screen in it and i had to run a wire to my emegency brake and ever since they haven't worked do you have any idel how i would fix the problum?

spankle my wankle

yea i had to do this, all you have to do is take the dimmer switch out...which is on the left side of the steering wheel under the gauge cluster, and cut the wires and splice them together. The lights will be as bright as possible because you have removed the switch or the light could be busted....i took my guage cluster out and i knocked one of the lights out of the back and when i put it back in i forgot to put the light on first so i kinda just pushed it in from behind just by feel and most of the time i have to flick the gauge cluster to get my voltage light to come on....so there are two choices i guess.

orangerex81

well mine is a 81 my dimmer switch is on the right will that change anything

BlackWorksInc

Sunofbitch! That's why my Rheostat hasn't been working!

>.> Well there's that question asnwered...

orangerex81

ok help there are two red wires and one black how do i reg this up i keep blowing fuses

Dan_s_young

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Should just be a matter of hooking the two red wires together, I believe the black wire is ground for the rheostat. If you are hooking the red wires to the black wire it will create a short to ground and therefore blow your fuses because the circuit is pulling alot of current.

orangerex81

the red wires toghther blow fuse too ???? i'm confused

docholiday

terribly stupid question. are you talking about blowing a fuse under the dash? or one of the fuseable links in the engine bay? i'm havin the same problem.

Dan_s_young

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No, you just hook the 2 red wires together.

What I was saying is the reason you may be blowing fuses is because connecting the red wires (power) to the black wire (ground) you are shorting out the circuit causing the fuse to blow.

ray green

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Actually I think you need to DISCONNECT that coupling under the shifter boot, it should only be hooked up if you have an automatic. When they are connected they will burn out your fuse and/or dimmer switch.

It sounds like you connected the connector when you put that DVD screen in, which is reasonable because they sure look like they should be connected. That's why your dash lights went out (same thing happened on one of my GSLs when a mechanic working on the clutch thought it would be a good idea).

Just disconnect that connector, everything will be fine.

Ray

Crit

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By the way, if you find that you have messed up the dimmer, you can buy just it from black dragon. Once you're sure your wiring straightened out again, which sounds like it just needs to be disconnected, throw in a new one (or junkyard part) if it doesn't come back.

blackdeath647

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what does that connector look like? i believe i have the exact problem right now, i'm gonna try to disconnect that and bypass the dimmer in case it got blown cuz all my fuses are straight right now...

ray green

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It's a white plastic coupling that usually is tucked down in along the driver's side of the shifter underneath the boot. It looks for all the world like it should be hooked up, but this is only for automatic transmissions.

When clutches get done or trannys swapped or electrical adventures with the ebrake wiring and others wires under there a lot of times people hook them back up just because they look like they should be.

Wrong, this causes the dimmer switch and the fuse to melt.

Just unhook them if you have a standard transmission.

blackdeath647

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thank you, i figured it out after i posted it, and i bypassed the dimmer cuz even after unhooking them the lights still wouldn't come on, but they're working now, thanks a million

DangerousCrew RX-7

My dash lights won't work either, but i have three red wires and one black. Two of the red wires have a blue stripe on them and the other red wire has a green stripe on it. I havnt seen anything like this on the thread, any help? im stumped