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Mattthew278

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Posted: August 31, 2004 at 12:28 AM / IP Logged

I was shooting for power today while I was installing an alarm in my 2003 tacoma ext cab and I heard a pop and realized that one of the connectors for my a/c and heater panel had touched a screw and one of the wires had shorted to ground. The wire that I think touched was a WHITE/ black stripe wire, about 12 gauge. It's an 8 pin connector (if I remember), of which only 5 pins or so were installed. Does anyone know where this wire goes to? I checked all the fuses I could find and everything appeared to be ok. I shot that wire for power after the incident and it reads no power so I obviously blew a fuse or melted something. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Mattthew278

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Posted: August 31, 2004 at 12:29 AM / IP Logged

the connector that I'm talking about hooks up to the left side (from drivers seat) of the back of the a/c and heater panel.

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Posted: August 31, 2004 at 12:34 AM / IP Logged

If you checked all of the fuses and none are blown, you may have blown a trace on the circuit board for the ac.

By the way, has anything stopped working?

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Mattthew278

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Posted: August 31, 2004 at 12:42 AM / IP Logged

I haven't reinstalled the panel yet to test it out, but I checked again for power on that wire and it read nothing. I was worried that I might have damaged something a little expensive. I guess we'll see tomorrow. I just figured if it was a 12 gauge wire it would be fused.

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Posted: August 31, 2004 at 12:44 AM / IP Logged

Yeah, don't worry till you check to see if everything works. Once you find that out it will be easier to track down a known problem.

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Posted: August 31, 2004 at 3:06 AM / IP Logged

I just reinstalled the panel and sure enough, the A/C doesn't come on, but everything else on the panel works fine. I shot for power and there's another pin going to that panel that is also power, so everything else must be running off of that. I checked the a/c fuses under the hood and they are all good. I removed the fuses and shot for power at the fuse panel and there's power there. Without a wiring diagram I'm kind of stuck.

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