Weird

[RangerRick]

So one of the reasons I turned around before the Eagle Rock trail was my XJ was overheating. Well I traced down the problem. The reverse lamp switch was shorted out, which blow the ignition fuse. The ignition fuse is indirectly wired to the radiator fan switch that overloaded when the fan came on and blew the fan fuse that over heated the engine causing the AC to stop working. What had been puzzling to me on the way back to Longmont the AC was freezing me out. But then I had no clutch, so I never used reverse. I fixed the clutch problem and with it running in the garage the AC worked great. When I got back from the test drive it wasn't working again. It took 3 weeks and a lot of fuses to figure out that using reverse caused the chair of events.

 

[Skully]

............so the moral of the story is....... "Always move forward and never look back.".................?



That is one definitely wired ....oops weird scenario..............I HATE automotive electrical....anybody else?



Hey, least you figured it out :cheers:

 

[RockyCodeHead]

That is one definitely wired ....oops weird scenario..............I HATE automotive electrical....anybody else?

I'll second that.
I have an '87. Somewhere there is a :repair: gremlin that blows the
10A instrument cluster fuse, which just happens to also be the
parking/tail lights. Brake lights are fine. Now, if the truck is
running, I can put in a new fuse and everything is great. Until
the next time I need the lights and odds are the fuse is blown
again..

Me :twak: Gremlin ... his time is coming! :scottm:

 

[bcmaxx]

I'll second that.
I have an '87. Somewhere there is a :repair: gremlin that blows the
10A instrument cluster fuse, which just happens to also be the
parking/tail lights. Brake lights are fine. Now, if the truck is
running, I can put in a new fuse and everything is great. Until
the next time I need the lights and odds are the fuse is blown
again..

Me :twak: Gremlin ... his time is coming! :scottm:

I had a shifter indicator bulb wire grounding out in the shift console, causing my light problem (auto trans)

 

[.40CalPatriot]

So one of the reasons I turned around before the Eagle Rock trail was my XJ was overheating. Well I traced down the problem. The reverse lamp switch was shorted out, which blow the ignition fuse. The ignition fuse is indirectly wired to the radiator fan switch that overloaded when the fan came on and blew the fan fuse that over heated the engine causing the AC to stop working. What had been puzzling to me on the way back to Longmont the AC was freezing me out. But then I had no clutch, so I never used reverse. I fixed the clutch problem and with it running in the garage the AC worked great. When I got back from the test drive it wasn't working again. It took 3 weeks and a lot of fuses to figure out that using reverse caused the chair of events.

I almost went cross eyed when I read the fourth sentence.