Electrical Gremlins and someone else's project

"nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul" (nfamouscj)
12/29/2018 at 16:40 • Filed to: None

Never before have I see so many quick/easy wire taps, specifically the number of taps itself. Can’t have electrical Gremlins if the electricity can’t flow right?

Turns out it was a tap in the license plate lights causing the fuse to pop. Unfortunately I destroyed the housings when removing them but Ford has been using the same license plate bulb housing for 347 years.

Props to them for looming everything and including fuses... so many hidden fuses.

Edit:

And they’d tap right on the pigtail itself.

DISCUSSION (12)

lone_liberal > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
12/29/2018 at 17:10

I hate those wire taps. A soldering iron and heat shrink tubing doesn’t take that long.

bshappy > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
12/29/2018 at 17:10

Electrical work and that pile of wires is nightmare fuel.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > lone_liberal
12/29/2018 at 17:17

I found these sweet butt splices with pre installed heat shrink. Super convenient.

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
12/29/2018 at 17:17

Jesusfuckingchrist.

Kill that thing with fire. You’re never gonna find all the hacked up harnesses or undo all the damage they’ve already done.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > bshappy
12/29/2018 at 17:21

Especially since the process went - remove headlights and bulbs, replace fuse , pop, remove cab lights and bulbs, replace fus e, pop, remove side markers and bulbs, replace fus e, pop, remove tail lights and bulbs, replace fus e, pop, remove 3rd brake light, replace fuse , pop, REMOVE ALL OF THEIR EFFING WIRING AND WIRE TAPS, replace fus e.... Nothing. Sweet silence. Did ya know f250s have a lot of exterior bulbs?! At least 24!

lone_liberal > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
12/29/2018 at 17:23

I got a set of those for Christmas! I haven’t had a chance to try them out yet.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks
12/29/2018 at 17:24

Thankfully I work on a gov’t project with tons of hodgepodge wiring jobs like this so I’ve gotten pretty good at unfucking nightmares like this. IE it’s fixed now, I’m justing waiting on some replacement pigtails and license plate bulb assemblies .

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
12/29/2018 at 17:30

I hate this splice things, if your going to tap into a wire do it properly

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
12/29/2018 at 17:49

Yeah, except now you’ve got a bunch of burnt, shorted shit lurking in there somewhere. (Remember, I used to work on Chryslers .) It’s the gift that never stops giving until you replace every damn wire, connector, and computer in the damn thing.

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
12/29/2018 at 17:57

Good lord. I felt my blood pressure rise and my heartbeat quicken just seeing that.

nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks
12/29/2018 at 17:59

Oh trust, where every tap was I cut out and respliced. Definitely not taking any chances. And luckily a lot of it was installed independent from the truck's harness. I do have a hole in the dash I need to plug with a switch or something.

pip bip - choose Corrour > nFamousCJ - Keeper of Stringbean, Gengars and a Deezul
12/30/2018 at 03:14

kwality wiring