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Luke_Healey
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Tonight I was fiddling around behind the dash for some other reason. I did an electric check and noticed that everything was working except the headlamps. Three hours later, I ended up having to make my own ground wire up at the grill and bypass the black wire that supplies ground to each of the headlights.
So, do any of you know where that ground wire under the grill terminates elsewhere in the car? I'd like to get things hooked back up how they are supposed to be.
I figured that I knocked something loose under the dash somewhere. The wiring diagram I have in an old service manual doesn't have the grounds drawn to true scale, showing where they should terminate.
To make things more annoying, the previous owner sprayed the entire engine bay in black paint, so every wire under the hood is 'black' unless you take time to rub the paint off of them.
In this case, I'm talking about the legitimately black headlight wires that meet at a three way junction with a fatter, black ground wire that disappears into the cloth harness.
A symptom that may be specific to my issue is that the high beam indicator in the speedo was illuminated when I turned the headlight switch on regardless of the setting of the floor switch. Once I grounded the headlights, that issue went away and the indicator worked as it should.
So, do any of you know where that ground wire under the grill terminates elsewhere in the car? I'd like to get things hooked back up how they are supposed to be.
I figured that I knocked something loose under the dash somewhere. The wiring diagram I have in an old service manual doesn't have the grounds drawn to true scale, showing where they should terminate.
To make things more annoying, the previous owner sprayed the entire engine bay in black paint, so every wire under the hood is 'black' unless you take time to rub the paint off of them.
In this case, I'm talking about the legitimately black headlight wires that meet at a three way junction with a fatter, black ground wire that disappears into the cloth harness.
A symptom that may be specific to my issue is that the high beam indicator in the speedo was illuminated when I turned the headlight switch on regardless of the setting of the floor switch. Once I grounded the headlights, that issue went away and the indicator worked as it should.
