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#41 ·
Ding ding ding... you can't pick bulbs just because it looks like it fits. Prolly the wrong wattage, and who knows why your junk quit working. And checking DC voltage is the V with the solid and dashed lines above it. Not the V with the squiggley line above it. Sorry if that was answered already, I was just getting frustrated just trying to read this thread and skipped to the end.
 
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FastStang91Lx said:
Ding ding ding... you can't pick bulbs just because it looks like it fits. Prolly the wrong wattage, and who knows why your junk quit working. And checking DC voltage is the V with the solid and dashed lines above it. Not the V with the squiggley line above it. Sorry if that was answered already, I was just getting frustrated just trying to read this thread and skipped to the end.
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i didnt pick them cause they look like they fit. i looked them up online to see which bulbs i should buy before i went to the store.

as far as the meter goes. i believe that the one i borrowed is broken. i put a new battery in it and when i turned it on the needle didnt move at all. it is supposed to go all the way to the right, correct?
 
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331N20 said:
since you said that you found a bunch of hacked wiring and fixes i would just get a wiring diagram, buy a roll of wire and some connecters and electrical tape and get a diagram and just wire the blinkers up using the factory switch. nothing worse that trying to fix someone else's hacked work. when i got my car the entire car was a mess of shoddy wiring and loose bolts so i went through the whole thing and now its like that guy never touched my car.

when you said the lights were dimmer than the other ones that is a sign of it not getting all the voltage to the bulb.. doesnt always mean it's a bad ground could also be bad connections loose wiring. if theyre not blinking now check the flasher and try to figure out what the previous owner was trying to fix
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theres not a lot of hacked wiring. there was just some weird ass thing in the fuse panel the had an LED light attached to it. if you want ill snap a pic of it and maybe you can tell me what it is?
 
#44 ·
Yea posting a picture of the thing that was attached to the fuse panel should clear some things up. And I was reading through the thread rather quickly so sorry if you already answered this, but what wires were connected to the thing on the fuse panel? Or was it only attatched to the fuse panel itself?
 
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dshaff36 said:
Yea posting a picture of the thing that was attached to the fuse panel should clear some things up. And I was reading through the thread rather quickly so sorry if you already answered this, but what wires were connected to the thing on the fuse panel? Or was it only attatched to the fuse panel itself?
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im not sure exactly where it was connected to the fuse panel. i believe that 2 of the wires were connected to it somewhere. i just pulled it out because i know its wasnt supposed to be there, and didnt think it was important.

I believe it to be a little circuit board with a transistor or whatever on it then a wire going to an led so that it could flash for whatever reason. i will take some pics of it and post them up.
 
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#49 ·
PLEASE tell me you know how to get a hold of the previous owner, because I really want to know what the HELL that thing is supposed to be, I am guessing some kind of BS just to run a led light and maybe a little beeper to make people think it had an alarm, but cant tell what the four wires have on the ends of them from the pics.
 
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95StangMX said:
PLEASE tell me you know how to get a hold of the previous owner, because I really want to know what the HELL that thing is supposed to be, I am guessing some kind of BS just to run a led light and maybe a little beeper to make people think it had an alarm, but cant tell what the four wires have on the ends of them from the pics.
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I know thats what im saying. yeah crappy cell phone cam. need batteries 4 dig cam. yeah so still have no idea why the lights are soo dim.

i need to see a wiring diagram for the harness for my 89 coupe. maybe its a different ground than the ones up front by hood bumpers?
 
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mustangman101 said:
I know thats what im saying. yeah crappy cell phone cam. need batteries 4 dig cam. yeah so still have no idea why the lights are soo dim.

i need to see a wiring diagram for the harness for my 89 coupe. maybe its a different ground than the ones up front by hood bumpers?
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all years should all be the same but even with that, can't you just follow the wire to where it goes and attaches to ground, it shouldnt be more than a few feet and maybe one or two looms? How about tap into the wire near one of the lights that is supposed to be grounded and temporarily take it to - battery or just about any piece of clean metal somewhere with the other end and see if anything changes. That should take you 30 seconds to test. The fox body Haynes manual has full electrical diagrams and a lot of public libraries have Mitchell manuals or something equal if needed.
 
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nolife said:
all years should all be the same but even with that, can't you just follow the wire to where it goes and attaches to ground, it shouldnt be more than a few feet and maybe one or two looms? How about tap into the wire near one of the lights that is supposed to be grounded and temporarily take it to - battery or just about any piece of clean metal somewhere with the other end and see if anything changes. That should take you 30 seconds to test. The fox body Haynes manual has full electrical diagrams and a lot of public libraries have Mitchell manuals or something equal if needed.
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so your saying cut the ground wire to the bulb socket and ground it to the battery? i already unbolted the ground wires by the hood bumpers and scraped all the paint off to metal underneath and bolted them back down. with one unbolted i touched it to the battery and it didnt help, but with the ground unbolted the lights were even dimmer. but as far as taking the paint off it didnt change anything.
 
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I meant to run a temporary "jumper" from the light ground wire at the light socket to a ground. If your existing ground wire was bad somewhere, you would know as soon as you attached this temporary jumper. If the jumper did nothing to help, toss it to the side and move along to looking somewhere else. A little more tricky but you could attach a jumper from the battery + to the positive side of the light socket to test as well. A volt meter measuring the voltage across the light socket is the right way to do this but you were having problems with the volt meter.
 
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nolife said:
I meant to run a temporary "jumper" from the light ground wire at the light socket to a ground. If your existing ground wire was bad somewhere, you would know as soon as you attached this temporary jumper. If the jumper did nothing to help, toss it to the side and move along to looking somewhere else. A little more tricky but you could attach a jumper from the battery + to the positive side of the light socket to test as well. A volt meter measuring the voltage across the light socket is the right way to do this but you were having problems with the volt meter.
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yeah im not really sure on how to read it. i dont know if that would help. when i had the grounds off for the harness. i touched one of them to the neg battery terminal and the light didnt change. not sure if thats basically what you were trying to get me to do. i havent got a new flasher relay either. so i wont know until then
 
#56 ·
I had two of those LED set-ups a long ass time ago, They came with an alarm that I bought at a swap meet in Sacramento (CA.) It came with a Clifford Alarm...like, back in 1992. That thing is ancient...I Had one of the LED lights mounted near each door lock at the top of the door panels. The green circuit board was supposedly used to measure a quick change of air pressure within the cars cabin area. That **** never worked. Maybe the previous owner of your 'stang wired them into the blinkers so that he would have LED's as his turn signal indicators...thats just crazy as ****!
 
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Tony Silva said:
I had two of those LED set-ups a long ass time ago, They came with an alarm that I bought at a swap meet in Sacramento (CA.) It came with a Clifford Alarm...like, back in 1992. That thing is ancient...I Had one of the LED lights mounted near each door lock at the top of the door panels. The green circuit board was supposedly used to measure a quick change of air pressure within the cars cabin area. That **** never worked. Maybe the previous owner of your 'stang wired them into the blinkers so that he would have LED's as his turn signal indicators...thats just crazy as ****!
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yeah its weird. only 1 LED and it wasnt for the blinkers. it was at the bottom of the black thing that surrounds the gauge cluster. im going to advanced tomorrow to get a new flasher relay. and a bunch of connectors and possibly a digital voltmeter. hopefully when i put in the new flasher relay it will be fixed.

this is the flasher relay im going to get:
http://shop.advanceautoparts.com/we...er-Tridon-(Novita-Tech--Inc)_5081289-P_121_R|GRPLAMPAMS_612703044___#fragment-1
 
#58 ·
...saw the pic....saw the price...for the thirteen bucks that the heavy duty flasher costs, I would rather go over to the local wrecking yard and grab a few flashers as well as some wires, and some fuses, look for decent brake pads, maybe rip out someones amp kit wires, and definately get a good look with some pics of stock wire stuff under the dash.
 
#59 ·
For god's sake... Repeat of post # 41... what is the wattage of the bulbs? Are they the same watts for the 'dim' bulbs as well as the 'bright' ones. And you can get a cheap junk digital meter for 10 bucks at hardware stores. Cheap junk, but it'll work.
 
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FastStang91Lx said:
For god's sake... Repeat of post # 41... what is the wattage of the bulbs? Are they the same watts for the 'dim' bulbs as well as the 'bright' ones. And you can get a cheap junk digital meter for 10 bucks at hardware stores. Cheap junk, but it'll work.
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when i used the voltmeter. i did check to see if the smaller corner bulbs had more currnet going to them. the reading was the same current for the 2 lights.

except the outside light is bright and the inside light in dim. see pic in previous post

i even took all the bulbs out except one of the inside bulbs and it still wasnt any brighter

the bulbs I used were from advanced. 3157 is their part number, and yes it is the correct 2 element bulb.

i couldnt tell you the exact wattage of the bulbs. they have the same part number as the original bulbs i took out.

3157's
http://shop.advanceautoparts.com/we...rStar-Incandescent-Mini-Bulb-Sylvania_5080159-P_1026_R|GRPLAMPAMS_1002317905___

921's
http://shop.advanceautoparts.com/we...rStar-Incandescent-Mini-Bulb-Sylvania_5080156-P_1026_R|GRPLAMPAMS_1002319128___

that give you a better idea about the bulbs...no reason to be a dick man. if you would have read the posts. you would have seen which kind of bulbs i used and that im going to get a decent voltmeter tomorrow already.

sorry for not being able to figure out something that just doesnt make sense. im sure thats never happened to you. would like to fix it right the first time.
 
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