banzaitoyota

ARG, no Brake Light/Turn Signal/Emergency Flasher's. Replaced Flashers: NO JOY

I am on my way to NAPA to get a new stoplight switch and some fussible link wire. Previous owners have hacked away the "spreader plug, now I have to sort out the mess.

I have read the sticky. Still deciding weather to use:
1. Fuses
2. Breakers/Buss bar system
3. Puss Bar with Fusible link feeds

Which method would you choose and why?

Thanks John

wannadiesel

#2. I like breakers for important circuits.

banzaitoyota

Started tearing the harness apart today.. Someone in the past was a HACK!!!!!
Here is what greeted me when I unwrapped the harness.

banzaitoyota

Here are 2 wires that were hacked in instead of fusible links. They were twisted around the brown and pink wires to the right. They appeared to have been sealed with Liquid Nails and then wrapped in tape

Machinos

That reminds me of my '71 Dodge RV... one time the headlights went out on the highway at night. I immediately thought of the dimmer switch on the floor (screwed right onto the carpet)... turns out the previous owners had replaced one of the wires going to it with a length of speaker wire and then just looped the stripped end through the hole in the spade connector on the switch. I would have been upset but I was just glad it hadn't caught fire.

wannadiesel

Sweet! Nothing like a professional wiring repair...

EClancy

i think the same guy did some wiring "repairs" on my trucks......

banzaitoyota

Made a power distribution block
Replaced all the fusible links with new links
Replaced Brake light switch
Used a 150 AMP fuse for the Alternator feed

Truck is fixed.

I do have one dilemma:
the front relay has a brown wire that was wrapped to the pink feed for the brake lights, where does this wire terminate?

I also have one feed line to the grid heater to replace, ran out of connectors

banzaitoyota

OOOH and the big news:

Picked up a 99 2500 today with 239K: actually it was my bonus for the Pet Crematory Business.

banzaitoyota

Took it on a 200 mile trip today. Runs great, Now to install the stack and rebuild the starter