just a few wiring issues if anyone can shed light please

August 12, 2025, 09:23:53 PM

Hey all, finally completed "well loosely speaking" the restoration on my barn find, engine pulled and replaced now all running, replaced many things on strip down i found broken, or damaged. now i'm pretty much all back together, i have found and not limited to of course. but what i have found so far

CE1 CAR

1. green indicator glow on dash, this did go away, think eddy peck pointed me in right direction last time, with hazard switch but no luck tapping and unplugging and plugging it back in this time. but hazards and indicators work fine otherwise im sure last time something odd was happening. Also confident the green glow only arrived again today

2. i have an issue that if i use my aux power in the ashtray "playing with simple things today it actually charges my phone, but wouldn't power the tyre pump yesterday", it triggers the wipers off all round regardless of powering my phone and not powering a pump

3. the wipers work back and front, rear wash jet works correctly, the front how ever sometimes works, but when it does , it will blow the fuse pretty much instantly, if not instantly anyway with out the pump buzzing, i must fess i put a 30 amp fuse in, which solved issue for 5 whole seconds then popped

During the restoration i found a broken pin on the fuse box, so sourced another one, having now chucked old one, i cant use it to test wipers and aux point, but i could be clutching at this one being faulty.

But i think i used aux when i had the old fuse box plugged in still to pump tyres up, i could be just dreaming that happened, again could be thinking it, trying sub consciously telling myself fusebox is at fault for the sake of it

So if any one can shed light, share there views on this situation, point me in a direction to try something. even if its remotely silly but pluasable

Re: just a few wiring issues if anyone can shed light please

Reply #1 – August 15, 2025, 09:54:36 PM

after a small amount of time this evening, i kinda get washers working, but i have to remove the lower earth pin on the wiper stalk, then all is fine, but of course thats not a good thing to leave off. surely someone here knows something

Re: just a few wiring issues if anyone can shed light please

Reply #2 – Today at 10:06:35 PM

Right my problems are solved, in case anyone has similar issue,

After actually spending a couple of hours digging deeper, my whole dash loom would trigger the wipers, had popped a few fuses, which i wasnt aware off. anyway the dash board main ground wire. some how ended up being placed on one of the g block pins on the fusebook. now located correctly. The issues i asked about have been resolved including the additional findings.