Shamrock GS
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| posted on 19/8/07 at 03:07 PM |
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wash/wipe connections sierra solumn
Here's a wee poser for you leccy bods...
I have wired up Sierra stalks to a Vicky Green loom. The windscreen washer has a separate switch on the dash. Everything works fine, wipers and
washers except that if I pull the wiper lever towards me (ie what would have been the wash/wipe option) I blow a fuse. The question is - which wires
from the stalks can I disconnect to disable this function while keeping the wipers working as normal?
Any thoughts?
Cheers
Gary
“Let your plans be dark and as impenetratable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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saigonij
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| posted on 19/8/07 at 03:15 PM |
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thats exactly how i caught my loom on fire!!!! the vickygreen loom must have a fust for the sidelight feed to the columns, where as the rapidloom does
not ( hence my burning and smoke! ).
cant asnwer your question though...
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saigonij
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| posted on 19/8/07 at 03:18 PM |
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ps.. the reason it does this is because the washer feed and returns polarity is switched to ruin the back washer pump,
which then sends +12v down the black and yellow wire - which you prob currently have connected to an earth...
one way to stop this from happening might be to fit a diode in that circuit to stop the short circuit?
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Shamrock GS
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| posted on 19/8/07 at 03:25 PM |
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Sounds a bit technical. The washer is run from a completely separate circuit and now has nothing to do with the column switches or VG loom.
This was because I couldn't get it to work from the switch without stuff blowing. Also for a while the washer came on when I used the
indicators!
G
“Let your plans be dark and as impenetratable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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saigonij
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| posted on 19/8/07 at 03:28 PM |
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can you give us a diagram showing which wires on the sierra stalks you have wired up and to what.
this might something that you have done wrong.
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Shamrock GS
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| posted on 19/8/07 at 03:39 PM |
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I will go and have a look...
G
“Let your plans be dark and as impenetratable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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Dusty
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| posted on 19/8/07 at 03:40 PM |
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Disconnect the wire on 53c of the washer stalk. You can run a new wire from 53c to the washer pump and then earth the other terminal on the pump and
it will run fine off the stalks. VG loom was designed for early (Part No. 83BG**** ) stalks and hasn't been modded for later, 87 onward
(87BG****or 91BG***** etc) stalks which switch a bit different.
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