Royston 90
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Going to have a go tomorrow morning at unpinning the connector you mentioned.It was my better halfs birthday today and my nieces tomorrow so I havent had chance to have a play yet. Once unpinned whats the next step ?
sierrafery
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If the fuse blows with it unpinned investigate at the tail door cos then the front side is ruled out
Royston 90
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Ok gotcha, will give that a go today.
Dan.
Dan.
Royston 90
Active Member
Have to go out for a couple of hours, but I have removed the trim & located the r/b wire to be removed from the female plug when I get back. Once I have it removed (hopefully its not to much of a pain to unpin as Ive never done one before) I will plug it back together put a new fuse in and see what happens. Edit it would appear easier to do some sort of bloody dam rain dance to the gods than unpin this damn wire. Anyone got any tips before I cause more damage than what im trying to fix ?
Dan
Dan
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Royston 90
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Given up whilst got a set of depinning pins on order. I tried thin tweezers & small slim flat head screwdrivers as well as pointed tweezers to no avail + I think it would help if you were a master of YOGA & could manage every position in the karma sutra, what with the awkward contortionism needed to get in the right position, to be able to pull at said wire. As well as try to prise open the plastic retaining clip.
Dan.
Dan.
Royston 90
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After having no joy unpinning the electrical pin (probably due to me mangling it with a variety of screwdrivers etc) I made a long bit of wire up & checked continuity between the multiplug & rear black/red trace wire & repeated the same with the front and got continuity. So where to look now ?
Dan.
Dan.
sierrafery
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To unpin that wire was not for continuity check but to isolate the part of the circuit which has a short to earth so your continuity check without opening that circuit is not relevant.
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Royston 90
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Is`nt that sort of what I done though ? by unplugging that part of the wiring connector harness, it allowed me to see wether I had continuity through the red/black wire on either the front or rear part of the wiring circuit by splitting it in half & testing the front then rear. Sorry if I have misunderstood what you mean, as I`m no good with electrics so trying to understand best how to test.
Dan.
sierrafery
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That connector holds many other circuits too and it's not a good move to turn ignition on with it unplugged and as i told you in a previous post the way to isolate the fault is to see if it blows the fuse with that circuit opened or not it wasnt about continuity
Royston 90
Active Member
I didn't turn the ignition on with the harness unplugged, just checked continuity as I feared I may have of broken/burnt through the wiring where I had been welding. Thank`s for your help so far Sierraferry I do appreciate the time you put in to help myself and others. I found a green 40A fuse in the engine bay that had blown (will check wich one it was later and update this post in case it helps others out) and now my front sidelights are working. I shall put everything back together again this weekend so that I can get it through the M.O.T.
Edit: fuse was nothing but coincidence with regards to the sidelights working. I decided to wire up the rear trailer socket & cable tie the trailing wire up out the way. It was then I found that I had inadvertently trapped the cable against the steel bumper in the corner.
Dan.
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