my left turn signal has been acting strange lately. drawing a lot of power (volt meter jumps back and forth from the normal ~13v down to less than 10 while it's on), and the front light itself hasn't been working. I figured it was something up under the dash, and didn't want to deal with it.
anyway, I was driving home from the bank today, and I flipped it on, and it didn't work, and my radio turned off. ok, well, duh, fuse.....done that before. yesterday I had just tapped into the right side wire (lost it in the swap
) in the dash, but hadn't hooked it up to the light itself. so I figured that's what was shorting and blowing the fuse. I taped up the end of that, and put a new fuse in it. I turned the ign on, hit the turn signals, and it did the same thing, and blew the fuse again.anyway, I figured it most be something with the left side....so I decided to pull the light out of the bumper. I found that the power wire was touching the metal outer edge of the fixture, and had rubbed through the insulation. so I pulled it away, put some electrical tape, and just like that, it works again. on the hazards......
now the turn signals don't work, but the hazards do. I think the only variable there is the switch itself.....possible I fried the switch? other ideas? I don't want to pull things apart and replace the switch in the column to have it not help....
question 2. when I was doing the engine swap last summer, I had the engine crossmember and steering rack out of the car. and my buddy said something along the lines of, "I've always wondered if the steering lock was in the column or the rack". and proceeded to grab the steering wheel, and give it a good hard spin. and it spun easily 20 times or more.....
well, now my turn signal sensor thingymabober (technical term) isn't centered. so they turn themselves off at the weirdest times. would it be possible to pull the steering wheel off, and the combination switch, and recenter it?
