I've been following along and think you are doing great at navigating the troubleshooting process, varied feedback, etc. It can be complicated keeping up with where the forum conversation is vs. where your troubleshooting is, especially with all of the life demands. Although a few folks may give you a hard time for missing details, typically for the entertainment value , most (if not all) of us understand the challenges of technical communication and troubleshooting via a web forum and take them into account as we help, so no worries. There are also plenty of us lurking but not chiming in in an effort to avoid cluttering an active troubleshooting process but if you stick with it there will be folks here to feed you ideas until you get the problems resolved or decide it's time for the flatbed.
I find that reading the electrical diagrams in the FSM/etc. takes more focus than I often want to commit so I get your reluctance to dive in there. That said, the troubleshooting processes in the FSM are typically useful and easy to work through. Regarding digital vs. print @jonheld mentioned my favorite part of the using the pdf versions of the FSM.
If you know the terms to search for you can often quickly jump through a lot of related content to the searched for term and it can be a great way to navigate the manual, especially when you are getting your bearings with it. The search doesn't always work and can return too many results, or too few, but it can be a pretty easy way to get started without necessarily needing to figure out how the manual is organized before you can even start looking for useful info on your problem.
Before I go back to the observation gallery I'll say that my money is on loose terminals for the GAUGE fuse being the main issue...
I find that reading the electrical diagrams in the FSM/etc. takes more focus than I often want to commit so I get your reluctance to dive in there. That said, the troubleshooting processes in the FSM are typically useful and easy to work through. Regarding digital vs. print @jonheld mentioned my favorite part of the using the pdf versions of the FSM.
It is a searchable PDF file, meaning you can type a term into the search bar in Acrobat and hit the ENTER button.
If you know the terms to search for you can often quickly jump through a lot of related content to the searched for term and it can be a great way to navigate the manual, especially when you are getting your bearings with it. The search doesn't always work and can return too many results, or too few, but it can be a pretty easy way to get started without necessarily needing to figure out how the manual is organized before you can even start looking for useful info on your problem.
Before I go back to the observation gallery I'll say that my money is on loose terminals for the GAUGE fuse being the main issue...