Low beam short circuit. did oil do it?

**Tins** · 28th October 2016, 08:00 PM

Originally Posted by sierrafery

Yes, that's a classic case of short to ground without doubt... IMO it was coincidental with that oil ingress and i'm quite sure that was the issue

Have to concur. While I am no expert, I would be very surprised if ATF contamination of a 12V circuit would be sufficiently conductive to blow a 30A circuit. That's dead short material. I would doubt that a short like that would occur with 240V AC through ATF. SF says coincidence. So do I.

**Tins** · 28th October 2016, 08:05 PM

Originally Posted by Don 130

On cleaning up all the mucky oil, I discovered this. It's not reassembled and tested yet, but I think that brown wire was the problem. I've repaired that and threaded it through split conduit to avoid a repeat performance.
Don.

I do have to say, and I'm guilty of this myself, but there are some seriously untidy electrical connections evident in that photo.

**Don 130** · 28th October 2016, 08:55 PM

Originally Posted by johntins

I do have to say, and I'm guilty of this myself, but there are some seriously untidy electrical connections evident in that photo.

Agreed, but understand that it's like that because I've removed the relay unit and used wood stews to temporarily attach the pairs of wires in their respective order, to strips of cardboard. I did that because I wasn't sure if I had the original wiring diagram and didn't want any crossed wires when I put it all back together again.
Don.

**Don 130** · 29th October 2016, 09:02 PM

Back together and all's well. Thanks everyone.
Don.

**Tins** · 30th October 2016, 12:20 PM

Originally Posted by Don 130

Agreed, but understand that it's like that because I've removed the relay unit and used wood stews to temporarily attach the pairs of wires in their respective order, to strips of cardboard. I did that because I wasn't sure if I had the original wiring diagram and didn't want any crossed wires when I put it all back together again.
Don.

Aah. Apologies then. Too long staring at the screen.

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