What would this have been?
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E450 2019; 560SL 1986
What would this have been?
The fun of rehabilitating an older car - finding things that are not original. Or was it original?
While poking around the fuse box area, I found a wire with the end terminated with electric tape. and a second wire (green).
The black wire also connected to the positive battery terminal (post).
Then the black wire and the green wire are fished through the firewall, and behind the glove box. It ended with a white connector - then a light diode - what could this have been?
Thanks
While poking around the fuse box area, I found a wire with the end terminated with electric tape. and a second wire (green).
The black wire also connected to the positive battery terminal (post).
Then the black wire and the green wire are fished through the firewall, and behind the glove box. It ended with a white connector - then a light diode - what could this have been?
Thanks
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My car has an odd connector under the hood too. I have a long cord with a switch on the end that plugs into it. Apparently i can use it to hotwire the car if something happens to the regular ignition switch. I'll take a pic later today.
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The fun of rehabilitating an older car - finding things that are not original. Or was it original?
While poking around the fuse box area, I found a wire with the end terminated with electric tape. and a second wire (green).
The black wire also connected to the positive battery terminal (post).
Then the black wire and the green wire are fished through the firewall, and behind the glove box. It ended with a white connector - then a light diode - what could this have been?
Thanks
While poking around the fuse box area, I found a wire with the end terminated with electric tape. and a second wire (green).
The black wire also connected to the positive battery terminal (post).
Then the black wire and the green wire are fished through the firewall, and behind the glove box. It ended with a white connector - then a light diode - what could this have been?
Thanks
Perhaps the "white connector" was to a cd player?
The black and green wires are power and ground, not matching Merc color code and not in a wrapped harness.
Definitley something the previous owner installed...
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Oh sweet! Where's your car now? haha, j/m
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Well - It's gone now
As Jackie Gleason would say ...
"To the moon Alice, To the moon"
BTW - now maybe the mysterious short I've had that I could not find will 'disappear'.
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E450 2019; 560SL 1986
Wire disconnected - but short remains
My first pass was to find stray wires.
Found one, removed it - but the short circuit remains
Now on to the multimeter (voltmeter) and see is any circuit is 'out of line' or specs.
Found one, removed it - but the short circuit remains
Now on to the multimeter (voltmeter) and see is any circuit is 'out of line' or specs.
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