1994 fjz-
I'm waiting for parts to come in to do the knuckle rebuild and I decided to update the tape deck head unit in the truck. When I pulled the dash I noticed that one of the previous owners had removed the factory wiring harness....lovely. I couldn't find one at the scrap yard, so I ended up just running longer wires and putting blade connectors on the end of each which worked pretty well. I got the head unit in and all of the speakers connected up and it fired right up. After turning the truck off and on again nothing happened. I checked my 12v connection and it's showing me 1.3v. After some digging around I realized I must have blown the dome fuse because the clock is out too. I took it out and it looked fine, but I replaced it anyway....again nothing. I disconnected the wire from the 12v supply and the original harness wire (solid grey) was also showing 1.3v, so it wasn't my wiring. I checked the fuse block and the dome fuse is at 12.5. After pulling fuses out and putting them back in just to see if anything else was blown (they all looked good) I noticed I had my clock back so I checked the 12v line...this time it was 11.6v. Back in business....I reconnected the radio with the truck off and it booted up. I turned it off again right after it booted and when I turned it back off I didn't have power or my clock. I know these are all on the same fuse, but the fuse is new and isn't blown. Is there anything I'm missing? I'm reticent to just run another 12v from the block because 1. I don't like the idea of a random hot line floating around in there, and 2 ....I really don't want to take the dash apart to fish a single wire through there.
This is what I get for assuming it was going to be a 2 hours job. Any thoughts?
I'm waiting for parts to come in to do the knuckle rebuild and I decided to update the tape deck head unit in the truck. When I pulled the dash I noticed that one of the previous owners had removed the factory wiring harness....lovely. I couldn't find one at the scrap yard, so I ended up just running longer wires and putting blade connectors on the end of each which worked pretty well. I got the head unit in and all of the speakers connected up and it fired right up. After turning the truck off and on again nothing happened. I checked my 12v connection and it's showing me 1.3v. After some digging around I realized I must have blown the dome fuse because the clock is out too. I took it out and it looked fine, but I replaced it anyway....again nothing. I disconnected the wire from the 12v supply and the original harness wire (solid grey) was also showing 1.3v, so it wasn't my wiring. I checked the fuse block and the dome fuse is at 12.5. After pulling fuses out and putting them back in just to see if anything else was blown (they all looked good) I noticed I had my clock back so I checked the 12v line...this time it was 11.6v. Back in business....I reconnected the radio with the truck off and it booted up. I turned it off again right after it booted and when I turned it back off I didn't have power or my clock. I know these are all on the same fuse, but the fuse is new and isn't blown. Is there anything I'm missing? I'm reticent to just run another 12v from the block because 1. I don't like the idea of a random hot line floating around in there, and 2 ....I really don't want to take the dash apart to fish a single wire through there.
This is what I get for assuming it was going to be a 2 hours job. Any thoughts?