So my 93GT has been an electrical PITA since I bought it. The previous owner had done some below average wiring work which included MSD ignition box, dash mounted tach and undercarriage neons (WHY?).
Chain of events are as follows:
Driving it home the night I bought it. Try to flip on the high beams, they came on for a second and then I lost ALL lights. Headlights, signals, dash etc. I pull over and turned the car off. Restart it and was able to get low beams and dash lights to come back on.
Car sat at my parent's for quite awhile with no battery drain issues. Then one day I pulled it out of the garage to work in the garage and when I went back to start the car, the battery was dead.
I decide to jump start the car. Not paying much attention to the +/- I have a brain dead moment and hook the cables up backwards, try to start the car and well you know what happens next. Melted some wires connected to the fender mounted solenoid, which have since been repaired.
Battery drain issue continued after that so I replaced the alternator. Issue did not go away. The plug from the head light harness to the alternator looked to be in bad shape and corroded, so I wired in a new plug. Issue did not go away.
Most recently, after using a test light and pulling fuses, I thought I had the problem narrowed down to Fuse #8, which is linked to the dome light and I'm pretty sure the visor lights (which I've read can be a problem with battery drain issues). I noticed the dash mounted tach no longer worked with Fuse #8 pulled as well. The factory tach has never worked. I'm not sure if they bypassed it when mounting the dash mounted tach or they just did it wrong. After letting car sit with Fuse #8 out, the battery did not seem to drain AS BAD, but has still been draining. Or it could be that I haven't driven the car to let the alternator properly charge the battery (IF the alternator is working correctly?).
Problem that just popped up within past couple days is now I have NO headlights (with Fuse #8 in or out). Signals work but headlights will not come on.
Outside of setting the car on fire (joking) where do I go from here?
Chain of events are as follows:
Driving it home the night I bought it. Try to flip on the high beams, they came on for a second and then I lost ALL lights. Headlights, signals, dash etc. I pull over and turned the car off. Restart it and was able to get low beams and dash lights to come back on.
Car sat at my parent's for quite awhile with no battery drain issues. Then one day I pulled it out of the garage to work in the garage and when I went back to start the car, the battery was dead.
I decide to jump start the car. Not paying much attention to the +/- I have a brain dead moment and hook the cables up backwards, try to start the car and well you know what happens next. Melted some wires connected to the fender mounted solenoid, which have since been repaired.
Battery drain issue continued after that so I replaced the alternator. Issue did not go away. The plug from the head light harness to the alternator looked to be in bad shape and corroded, so I wired in a new plug. Issue did not go away.
Most recently, after using a test light and pulling fuses, I thought I had the problem narrowed down to Fuse #8, which is linked to the dome light and I'm pretty sure the visor lights (which I've read can be a problem with battery drain issues). I noticed the dash mounted tach no longer worked with Fuse #8 pulled as well. The factory tach has never worked. I'm not sure if they bypassed it when mounting the dash mounted tach or they just did it wrong. After letting car sit with Fuse #8 out, the battery did not seem to drain AS BAD, but has still been draining. Or it could be that I haven't driven the car to let the alternator properly charge the battery (IF the alternator is working correctly?).
Problem that just popped up within past couple days is now I have NO headlights (with Fuse #8 in or out). Signals work but headlights will not come on.
Outside of setting the car on fire (joking) where do I go from here?