So the 90 pickup i bought has an e-locker in the rear. Previous owner said it works but if you lock it it will not disengage and the index/clocking needs adjusted. I had a 400 miles drive home at the time so I took him on his word.. that is my mistake.
When i finally had time to troubleshoot it i hit the locker button but nothing happend. I got tired of messing with wiring so I ended up ordering a harness from dark illusions fab. I installed that and had the same outcome. The original harness was connected to a power block in the engine bay, which i checked with a multimeter and it does get voltage so I connected the new harness to that same block but got the same results when hitting the switch which was nothing.
I took a part the actuator and from the reading I have done this one is pretty clean. It had virtual no grease so I was hoping that was one of the issues. I cleaned, lubed and reassemblled the actuator. This time i just pluged it in to test it but once again same results.
The only odd thing to happen was when I connected the new harnes straight to the battery. When i tried to turn the truck on it would not start and the + terminal had a little crackle. When I disconnected the harness everything was back to normal and truck started just fine.
I tried going from the battery directly to the two pins on the actuator and still had no movement.
I do not know what else to do at this point and its getting pretty frustrating. I am about to just throw the towel in and make it part if my airdown practice to take the actuator off and manually engage the locker before I hit a trail. I Don't want to spend $400 on a new one right now and these do not really go bad.
Is there something specific I could have missed when I put the actuator back together? For me its hard to tell since it did not work before hand.
When i finally had time to troubleshoot it i hit the locker button but nothing happend. I got tired of messing with wiring so I ended up ordering a harness from dark illusions fab. I installed that and had the same outcome. The original harness was connected to a power block in the engine bay, which i checked with a multimeter and it does get voltage so I connected the new harness to that same block but got the same results when hitting the switch which was nothing.
I took a part the actuator and from the reading I have done this one is pretty clean. It had virtual no grease so I was hoping that was one of the issues. I cleaned, lubed and reassemblled the actuator. This time i just pluged it in to test it but once again same results.
The only odd thing to happen was when I connected the new harnes straight to the battery. When i tried to turn the truck on it would not start and the + terminal had a little crackle. When I disconnected the harness everything was back to normal and truck started just fine.
I tried going from the battery directly to the two pins on the actuator and still had no movement.
I do not know what else to do at this point and its getting pretty frustrating. I am about to just throw the towel in and make it part if my airdown practice to take the actuator off and manually engage the locker before I hit a trail. I Don't want to spend $400 on a new one right now and these do not really go bad.
Is there something specific I could have missed when I put the actuator back together? For me its hard to tell since it did not work before hand.