Curless
02-15-2013, 07:49 PM
For those of you who don't think being a mechanic sux...our cars break too!
So its 5:30 and the week is done, my Chevy truck has been blowing brake light fuses now for a few weeks intermittently and tonight I am going to fix it. My wife goes home (26 miles) and leaves me here at the shop to repair it. I throw a new headlight and brake light switch in cause parts of them crossover in the wiring. Check everything out and I am happy. Its 7 or so now (talked to a bunch of friends that always stop by on Friday nights, it does not take that long to do the job) and I hop on the internet to check out the sites. Now its quarter to nine and I wanna go home. I pull the truck out of the shop and the dash lights go out, the headlights dim, the engine pulls down and the alternator starts screamin....then the smoke pours out of the steering column:eek:....what the ???? Now I have no brake lights at all, the fuses are burnt, the wiring to the brake light switch is melted and I have no way home at 9 p.m.........call the wife, ask her to come get me. Meanwhile start tearing the steering column apart...there it is, the tilt wheel mechanism has ripped through the coating on the turn signal switch and shorted to ground inside the steering column....Joy...
If you have never seen this wiring changed out before its a fantastic job to do...NOT. Guess I know what I am doing Saturday morning huh?
There, rant over...I feel better now!
So its 5:30 and the week is done, my Chevy truck has been blowing brake light fuses now for a few weeks intermittently and tonight I am going to fix it. My wife goes home (26 miles) and leaves me here at the shop to repair it. I throw a new headlight and brake light switch in cause parts of them crossover in the wiring. Check everything out and I am happy. Its 7 or so now (talked to a bunch of friends that always stop by on Friday nights, it does not take that long to do the job) and I hop on the internet to check out the sites. Now its quarter to nine and I wanna go home. I pull the truck out of the shop and the dash lights go out, the headlights dim, the engine pulls down and the alternator starts screamin....then the smoke pours out of the steering column:eek:....what the ???? Now I have no brake lights at all, the fuses are burnt, the wiring to the brake light switch is melted and I have no way home at 9 p.m.........call the wife, ask her to come get me. Meanwhile start tearing the steering column apart...there it is, the tilt wheel mechanism has ripped through the coating on the turn signal switch and shorted to ground inside the steering column....Joy...
If you have never seen this wiring changed out before its a fantastic job to do...NOT. Guess I know what I am doing Saturday morning huh?
There, rant over...I feel better now!