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Blinkers dont work when steering wheel is lowered
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<blockquote data-quote="Richard L" data-source="post: 984332" data-attributes="member: 52972"><p>m_court15,</p><p></p><p>Les is correct. This is a very common problem with the early Sport Trac. It appears that they did not put enough slack in the wiring harness going up the steering column and when the steering wheel is moved up and down it pulls on the wiring harness and can cause broken wires or connections at the multiswitch connector.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The Multiswitch connector contains the wiring for everything passing through the steering column and can cause some very strange erratic operations of the equipment controlled by the switches in the steering column. These include the ignition/starting switch, horn, wipers, cruise control, headlights and dimmer controls, turn signals and even your taillights (taillights and turnsignals share the same wiring and pass through the steering column). People have reported intermittent starting problems, or the horn blowing when the wipers are turned on and various other odd lighting failures, etc...really crazy stuff..:grin:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It fairly easy to pull up a little extra slack in the steering column wiring and you won't have anymore problems.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>...Rich:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richard L, post: 984332, member: 52972"] m_court15, Les is correct. This is a very common problem with the early Sport Trac. It appears that they did not put enough slack in the wiring harness going up the steering column and when the steering wheel is moved up and down it pulls on the wiring harness and can cause broken wires or connections at the multiswitch connector. The Multiswitch connector contains the wiring for everything passing through the steering column and can cause some very strange erratic operations of the equipment controlled by the switches in the steering column. These include the ignition/starting switch, horn, wipers, cruise control, headlights and dimmer controls, turn signals and even your taillights (taillights and turnsignals share the same wiring and pass through the steering column). People have reported intermittent starting problems, or the horn blowing when the wipers are turned on and various other odd lighting failures, etc...really crazy stuff..:grin: It fairly easy to pull up a little extra slack in the steering column wiring and you won't have anymore problems. ...Rich: [/QUOTE]
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Blinkers dont work when steering wheel is lowered
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