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Todd W
GenIII
1/04/2003
14:51:29
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 Subject: Bad ground...?
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Alright, this was somewhat interesting and probally -almost- contributed to me getting a ticket.
Yesterday morning (1/3/03) at 4am I left my parent's place in Michigan (north of Flint) and all was fine. Filled the tank, got some coffee, hit the road right after a snow storm, which means the salt trucks had been out. No problem, I'd filled up the washer fluid! Everything was fine until Flint, when all of a sudden the washer fluid stopped squirting. I checked the fuses and everything was fine, the fluid wasn't froze, so I figured the line was froze somewhere and would start working once it warmed up. So I hit the road again.
I didn't think anything of it until I stopped to eat Breakfast just North of Cincinatti (mmm... Big Boys breakfast buffet...). Upon getting back on the road I realized that I seemed to be passing a lot of people for going 55MPH. Oil pressure was good, Tach seemed right, temp was good, but volts was reading 10? I tapped the dash and all of a sudden was going 85 (In OHIO? Whoa!). I did the 'turn key to start but not to where it engages the starter' on the highway, and the gauges reset (MPH was right and volts now was 14 again). Oddly enough, the windshield squirter took this moment to start working again, and it really hadn't gotten any warmer out. I don't remember what the reading on volts had been prior to this, just that 14 is normal. It -might- have dropped off when the squirter stopped working and it just didn't register.
What the -hell- was all that about? I'm supposing a bad ground, since the problem didn't show back up again for the rest of the drive (To Orlando). Could it have been brought on by cold weather or something? I'm more curious than concerned at this point, since it hasn't repeated yet.
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Jesse T
Dodge Dakota
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1/06/2003
12:08:31
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have you ever had any body work done to you truck, specificly the pasenger side? Have your wippers ever just went on by them selves, also check your head light and see if one is brighter than the other. Let me know...I might just know where your problem is.
Jesse T.
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Texas Todd
Dodge Dakota
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1/06/2003
12:50:51
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Oh Jesse,
the suspense is killing me here at work,
where, where?
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Jesse T.
Dodge Dakota
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1/06/2003
13:36:49
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Well there is this ground that is located on the pasenger fender and it has the tendacy to get loose sometimes and do what was discribed above, sometimes after a dak comes out of a body shop they dont tighten the gnd enough and causes these problems. If you have the stock air box its hard to get to but if its removed, its simple to get to, right above the horns and mounted on the fender. There is also another gnd under the dash on the pasenger side in the cab that might want to look at as well.
Jesse T.
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