Jim,
Sounds like you must have touched a hot wire to the burned-out ground cable,
briefly turning it into a heating element. Hopefully, the hot wire was of
much greater size (gauge), or else it's fried too.
Duncan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Boynton" <jimboynton@attbi.com>
To: "Tigers" <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 3:02 PM
Subject: ground wire
> Just had a ground wire burn out. It was connected to the temp gauge than
to
> fuel gauge and attached to hood bracket. Just melted to gooey plastic. I
> shut the engine off and crawled up underneath and pulled the wire out. The
> car started up and ran with no problem. The fuel gauge was still OK but
temp
> gauge was dead. The fuel had a second ground attached which explained why
it
> was working. When I got home I attached a new ground to the temp and ran
it
> to the other side of the hood bracket and the gauge came back to life. I
was
> reaching up to adjust the speedo just installed while the engine was
> running. Nothing else appears to be effected. Did I hit a bare wire or???
> Any ideas?
>
> Jim
|