Okay gents here is the skinny on my problem with the wires heating up when the headlights were turned to bright. As stated above when I removed the cluster from the dash everything works. Well as it turns out, with the cluster removed it is no longer grounded to the car. My brother in law begin to do some checking. He zeroed in on the bright light indicator blub. This red wire is tied into the dimmer switch and headlight switch. He jumpered the socket and did some test and his jumper wire starting heating up. As it turned out, inside the dimmer indicator socket the center lead was up and touching the side of the socket even with the blub pushed in and seated. With the cluster mounted (grounded to the car) this caused a short and heating of the wires. With the blub properly seated and the center connection down away from the side of the socket, everything works. Now, when I originally installed the blub I noticed that this center lead was "up" some in the socket but it didn't concern me because I figured by inserting the blub, this would push it down into its proper position. Even though the blub "seated" obviously this did not happen. Now all is well..........almost.....now my car will not start. I tested it prior to reassembling (hit the ignition and it see if would turn over) and Nada. Found that the positive battery cable was loose. Cleaned it up, tightened it down and it would crank. Buttoned everything up and tried to start it...........nothing..........but hey, the headlights work! Gotta call the brother in law back.
Topic: More issues with under dash harness, wires heating up...Fixed! (Read 2401 times)
