'94 GMC "The Blue Wonder" build

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Ruger_556

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Well the dome light has decided to stay on permanently, glows dimly with the doors shut. It gets brighter when you are cornering, just friggin wonderful... Already checked the door switches and it's not one of those. So it's either the headlamp switch or a wiring issue and I have a bad feeling I'm going to be chasing the latter through the dash...
 

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Well the dome light has decided to stay on permanently, glows dimly with the doors shut. It gets brighter when you are cornering, just friggin wonderful... Already checked the door switches and it's not one of those. So it's either the headlamp switch or a wiring issue and I have a bad feeling I'm going to be chasing the latter through the dash...
My 95 has always done that so I just have the dome override on all the time
 

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Well the dome light has decided to stay on permanently, glows dimly with the doors shut. It gets brighter when you are cornering, just friggin wonderful... Already checked the door switches and it's not one of those. So it's either the headlamp switch or a wiring issue and I have a bad feeling I'm going to be chasing the latter through the dash...
A ground wire for the interior is grounding out. Most likely one of the ones under the drivers sill plate. Easy fix. Since the door pin switches are on the ground side and the entry and dome lights have constant power feeds I snipped the wires at the dome and ran new ones up the a pillar and across the roof under the headliner. Small piece of gorilla tape every few inches and boom. Fixed. And easier to get to if you ever add an overhead console with maps or something and a blank plate for switches.

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A ground wire for the interior is grounding out. Most likely one of the ones under the drivers sill plate. Easy fix. Since the door pin switches are on the ground side and the entry and dome lights have constant power feeds I snipped the wires at the dome and ran new ones up the a pillar and across the roof under the headliner. Small piece of gorilla tape every few inches and boom. Fixed. And easier to get to if you ever add an overhead console with maps or something and a blank plate for switches.

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Thanks man, I'll check that out.

Well I'm in the market for a new daily driver, truck needs some attention but it might have to wait until I find a house and I have somewhere I can work on it. It needs door pins, pitman arm, idler arm, regear but I may end up swapping the axle entirely, etc...
 

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I haven't done anything to it in months, haven't even driven it in the last two weeks, just shamelessly bumping my own thread.
 

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I just lurk these days, and post in the "what did you do at work" thread every once in awhile.
 
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