August 6, 2019
Mileage: ~153,000
Started off by trying to figure out why my comp/temp mirror read fine upon start up but would quickly fall off to "-39 F". Swapped a new mirror, swapped multiple sensors. Nothing changed. LEft the sensor bracket unscrewed from its mounting hole and drove it like that for three days now, temperature seems to be working fine.
The old mirror display would also dim to the point I couldn't even read it at night. New mirror seemed to fix that. Fingers crossed.
Next up, I fixed the dome circuit ignition cut off for the keyless entry system. I rigged up a connector running from the main ignition wire I tapped into for the keyless entry system, for the comp/temp mirror. I didn't get a good connection for the keyless entry side because the interior lights wouldn't shut off when the ignition was turned"ON". That's now fixed.
Tried to figure out my intermittent door lock issue. Every now and then, more frequent recently, the drivers door lock doesn't work. It seems to begin working again after I go to the other side of th truck and hit the passenger lock switch a few times. Might be purely coincidental. Swapped it with a switch I nabbed from the junkyard and that didn't fix the issue. Strangely enough, I was messing with the switch with the bottom of the case off and the locks worked everytime and were solid. So I left the bottom of the case off and put everything back together. Again, might be coincidental but we shall see.
After replacing my fuel pump, the fuel gauge has not worked. I assumed I hadn't made a good ground on the frame rail upon reinstallation. I cleaned and tightened that ground (which was loose) and no change. It began by reading about 3/4 of a tank. Stayed that way for several days. Then I noticed it read half a tank. A few days passed and it read way past full. Like, laying perfectly horizontal. It has been on "E" for the last several weeks. I figure it finally completely gave up. I'm going to ohm out the connector and I expect to see 0 (reading E on the gauge). I'm sure it's the sending unit but I am not wanting to pull the bed or drop the tank again so soon.
In the spirit of grounds, I decided to go around and clean all the grounds in the engine bay. Noticed the ground running from the frame to the back of the head is coated in crap (from an oil leak). Couldn't see an easy way to get to it so I left it for now. It will require attention at some point in the near future, simply for peace of mind.
The next thing I did was try to figure out why I had so much noise in the radio I bought. I can't use the bluetooth or aux input without a ton of background noise. I tried grounding the radio case directly to a solid ground source under the dash. No change. That's the extent of my radio/electrical noise knowledge. The radio (am/fm) is crisp and clear. The first radio had no noise with bluetooth. Aux had noise. They swear there is nothing wrong with their radios they sent me. I really don't know what to do from here. They are sending a second replacement out and if it has noise, I don't know what to do. Probably add a noise filter but I have no knowledge on this issue so it'll require some research.
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