Hey all,
I've been getting great use out of my old girl recently, moving house, towing trailers full of crap to the recycling centre etc. I've also been using it generally and I must say that the more I use it the better it seems to drive. Those springs do seem to loosen up a bit.
Anyway, all has been well in the electrics department until a couple of nights ago when I decided to investigate my trailer connections. I had just been towing a small trailer with no light bar but I was due to move another car on a transporter I've borrowed and it really needs the lights to be properly hooked up.
So, I plugged the trailer end into the socket on the back panel of my landy. The socket is not beside the towbar but is fixed to the tub just to the left of the number plate light. The result was that both sides of the running and brake lights on the trailer worked as did the the rhs indicator but there was nothing on the left. At this stage the lhs indicator on the landy worked. So, I started to look for the problem. I found the wire under the rear tub that goes to the lhs light panel and gave it a wiggle, at which point the lhs indicator stopped working...
I have now removed the inside covers to get access to the back of the lights and there appears to be no feed at all to the lhs indicator. Running lights are fine. I see that the feed to both light clusters comes out of the top of the chassis inside the rear right wheelarch and then splits left and right. I think I am right in saying that the wiring to the lhs light cluster must also continue up into the rhs light cluster to feed the trailer socket. So I should be able to get a lhs indicator feed coming from the multiple wires in the loom that appears up through the rear tub into the space behind the rhs lights.
I'm not getting anything there. I can't see a break in the wire anywhere and the covering where the loom exits the chassis looks to be in fairly good shape. I'm on here really to check if I have missed something before I start uncovering the t-junction where the loom splits left and right. Since the problem has come from me wiggling the rear loom I'm thinking that there may be a dodgy connection somewhere in the rear loom but I'm wondering if this might be a coincidence and something has happened further forward in the setup.
Any thoughts anyone?
Cheers,
Al
I've been getting great use out of my old girl recently, moving house, towing trailers full of crap to the recycling centre etc. I've also been using it generally and I must say that the more I use it the better it seems to drive. Those springs do seem to loosen up a bit.
Anyway, all has been well in the electrics department until a couple of nights ago when I decided to investigate my trailer connections. I had just been towing a small trailer with no light bar but I was due to move another car on a transporter I've borrowed and it really needs the lights to be properly hooked up.
So, I plugged the trailer end into the socket on the back panel of my landy. The socket is not beside the towbar but is fixed to the tub just to the left of the number plate light. The result was that both sides of the running and brake lights on the trailer worked as did the the rhs indicator but there was nothing on the left. At this stage the lhs indicator on the landy worked. So, I started to look for the problem. I found the wire under the rear tub that goes to the lhs light panel and gave it a wiggle, at which point the lhs indicator stopped working...
I have now removed the inside covers to get access to the back of the lights and there appears to be no feed at all to the lhs indicator. Running lights are fine. I see that the feed to both light clusters comes out of the top of the chassis inside the rear right wheelarch and then splits left and right. I think I am right in saying that the wiring to the lhs light cluster must also continue up into the rhs light cluster to feed the trailer socket. So I should be able to get a lhs indicator feed coming from the multiple wires in the loom that appears up through the rear tub into the space behind the rhs lights.
I'm not getting anything there. I can't see a break in the wire anywhere and the covering where the loom exits the chassis looks to be in fairly good shape. I'm on here really to check if I have missed something before I start uncovering the t-junction where the loom splits left and right. Since the problem has come from me wiggling the rear loom I'm thinking that there may be a dodgy connection somewhere in the rear loom but I'm wondering if this might be a coincidence and something has happened further forward in the setup.
Any thoughts anyone?
Cheers,
Al
