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27-03-2005, 02:12 PM
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slow & low EA Ghia
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Location: Adelaide
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hey guys on the way home last night i done a huge compression lock up and the entire car bounced around and shook everything. the car is an ea fairmont ghia. the dash all works including speedo but no interior lights work except for the speedo back light. so at night i cant see my tacho or temp guage but can see the speedo. would i have just blown a fuse or shook the earth point or something else? is there an earth point for all that? any help on what it would be is appreciated.
Ehab
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27-03-2005, 02:54 PM
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There is an interior light fuse, so check that.
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28-03-2005, 10:26 AM
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Oops, I slipped....
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I doubt the fuse has blown if the speedo light's still working. Have you checked to see if the globes are blown?
I see the 5 speed's getting driven 'sensibly'........
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28-03-2005, 10:42 AM
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28-03-2005, 12:16 PM
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Location: Geelong
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from my understanding of the digital dash, the dash lights are seperate from the digi cluster's backlighting.
id still check ya fuse mate... |
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28-03-2005, 12:30 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Deffinately interior light fuse.
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28-03-2005, 02:38 PM
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Your tail lights went out as well! We should have video of this soon.
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28-03-2005, 02:39 PM
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i see the funniest compression lock ever... and its on film ;)
haha yeah thats right, the tail lights died after that too lol |
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28-03-2005, 05:10 PM
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Must have been pretty nasty Ehab. I give your head gasket 6 months.
If the tail lights died, check fuses. Or maybe you shook all the globes out of the back of the cluster and rear  Must have felt good, we have a manual forklift at work that gets locked up all the time.
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29-03-2005, 01:27 AM
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wasn't "compression lockup", it was suddenly realising that the lights were red....
your brakelights don't come on when you 'compression lockup". or you have soft legs that can't handle the 'Xtreme' clutch lol ;) |
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29-03-2005, 07:34 PM
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tail lights are generally on the parker fuse along with dash lights
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03-04-2005, 11:04 PM
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slow & low EA Ghia
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Location: Adelaide
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the problem was a wire behind the deck had come loose so it wasnt earthed at all.
phil - while gearing down when coming up to lights usually you brake! i think thats why it was so big, my legs are soft i only weigh 40kgs these days. has anyone got the vid as an mpeg? Jade 6 - blew the motor last tuesday going up the express way. filled up oil in the bitch and used 4.5litres of oil and 4litres of water from mount lofty turn off to northfield! so au conversion is coming up soon. with the possible help of phil?
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help! no dash lights
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