Electrical lesson learned

[isettajoe]

When I posted recently about electrical gremlins, I had lost power to
lights, turn signals, horn, and hazard. An eager friend got a wire
and by-passed each of the 4 fuses under the dash. He said "Can't be a
problem there. If a fuse was bad, when I by-pass it, you would get
power to the lights--". Wrong, apparently. After checking other
things, I went back to the basic starting point and pulled each fuse
and cleaned it and scrubbed the contact area. When I put them back--
voila- I have lights, horn, etc. I studied the wiring diagram and
decided that a couple of the fuses work together. So checking one by
one did not find the problem. Live and learn. Hope this may save
someone else with the same problem. Joe

[riceburner006]

--- In 2cylinderhondas@y..., "isettajoe" wrote:

> When I posted recently about electrical gremlins, I had lost power to
> lights, turn signals, horn, and hazard. An eager friend got a wire
> and by-passed each of the 4 fuses under the dash. He said "Can't be a
> problem there. If a fuse was bad, when I by-pass it, you would get
> power to the lights--". Wrong, apparently. After checking other
> things, I went back to the basic starting point and pulled each fuse
> and cleaned it and scrubbed the contact area. When I put them back- -
> voila- I have lights, horn, etc. I studied the wiring diagram and
> decided that a couple of the fuses work together. So checking one by
> one did not find the problem. Live and learn. Hope this may save
> someone else with the same problem. Joe

Joe, thanks,other key places to check are the 3 rectifier wires
(unplug 1 by 1 and check for corrosion,),the regulator plug,the
rectifier ground(which is made thru the bumper mount bolt which also
secures the rectifier,(sedan),all the harness plugs by the fuse-
block,a good ground between the bat.to block and block to body,and
also the lead that connects to main fuse. Ive had problems in all
these(and some more)problem areas!