Fixed floor shift light - dash lights out now.

Feb 22, 2007 6 Replies
J

On my 1985 245 I had no floor shift light. I pulled the plastic cover off the shift to see 2 wires - 1 red and 1 red/white. The red/white was cut. I repaired this and the light came on. So, I reassembled everything and then tested - no light. Not only no more floor light - the dash lights went out.



I checked the fuse panel (I never saw fuses like that before) - but the fuse for the dash/ rear fog lights checked out OK. I'm thinking I shorted something. Still - no floor lights and no dash lights.



Any ideas?



Second thing, probably unrelated - under the driver's dash panel in the upper right is a cluster of wires and a red wire is not connected to anything. Tomorrow I'll upload a photo. Just curious.



Thanks! Jamie



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J

Here is the photo of the red wire. This would be to the top right of the driver kick panel. The column is the steering column.

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J

It sounds like you shorted something and burned out the dimmer rheostat, I did that on my dad's 240 a few years ago.

That sounds like the tach wire, I'm assuming the car doesn't have a tach installed in the cluster?

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J

Nope, no tach.

I'll pull the dash cover and see if I can fix.

Thanks!

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J

Yep, that's the tach lead. It's handy that they prewired all the '81 and later 240s for that option.

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J

You da man! I pulled the cover off the dash panel, saw the wires to the dimmer, reached underneath and unplugged those wires. I spliced the wires together and everything came on.

Thanks!

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