Barndoors don't open/close

Oct 20, 2003 7 Replies

I was tinkering in my miata this weekend, installing a heat sheild for the K&N cone style filter to replace my stock air box, hopefully discouraging hot air from the exhaust manifold from being sucked into the filter. I used plain old 22 guage steel sheet metal. This works fairly well and I'm pleased. Some where along the line, I moved it out of the way and in between the retractor motor and the P/S resevoir. Obviously a dumb move.



After getting it in, bolted down, I noticed my headlights no longer retract, they were up while I was doing the fitment.



I don't believe I pinched a wire, and they do not look stripped or cut by the retractor.



I'm looking for any help, pinouts for the Drivers side retractor motor would be great. And if anybody knows how to trick my miata into thinking it's connected so I can test to see if it was just a conincidence and something else failed.



Thanks, Karl



90 Red, Maverik

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Hey Karl - did you check the fuse in the main block? It's the big green one in the fuseblock under the hood - over on the passenger side.

I can e-mail you off-list with the checklist for the retractor motors if you'd like.

Iva & Belle.) '90B Classic Red.) #3 winkin' Miata

If the doors were up when you were working on your car, means you must have had the button on the center of your dash pushed in. Check this first.

Iva,

Thanks, I did check a fuse, a 10 amp I think. Maybe I got the wrong one, and I'll give that a look.

Thanks, Karl

I don't think this failed, but releasing the button, they just stayed up. The hazard lights still work. I'll check that if the other stuff leads me to it, but that's a good bit of stuff to take out to get to it.

Any other ideas?

Thanks, Karl

Seems to me you must have. Anyway, here are the functions of the wires from Ephar:

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Ignore the black boxes in between for his wink.

I have the later workshop manual, so my wiring diagrams are different.

Leon

I would have bet money on that. As it turned out, the dash wash button had burned out. Put a test one in it worked fine. I opened up the old one, there was a circuit that had burned about an 1/8th of an inch.

After replacing it, all's well again.

Thanks, Karl

90 Red, Maverik

Turns out, that switch had failed.

I never would have guessed.

Thanks, Karl

90 Red, Maverik

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