{"id":4404,"date":"2018-10-07T15:12:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T19:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/?p=4404"},"modified":"2018-11-20T10:38:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T15:38:52","slug":"short-finder-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/short-finder-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Finder tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

They say if you don;t use something in year you should get rid of it.  Well I don’t take that advice on tools. I can;t remember how many years its been since I last used this tool but today it was really handy to have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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When I was trying to figure out the trouble with my Porsche tail lights<\/a> I found the at the previous wonder had modified the wiring for the left side tail light.  Also, the front corner markers have never worked since I have had the car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracing the circuit, I found a dead short in the left side wiring that would blow the fuse. I assume this is the reason why they have jumpered the tail light wires and disabled the front markers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using the above tool, I was able to trace the short to somewhere in the front fender area. Without it I would have just been guessing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I made a jumper to use the tool to put power to the load side of the fuse and took power straight off the battery. Since there was a dead short I did not want to stress the light switch while searching for the short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was able to use the little meter to follow the wire through the car and down into the fender. I then put the car on the lift and removed the belly pan to get access to the wire. Since there was just a short section of wire to inspect I decided to do a visual inspection instead of continuing with the tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took some searching, but I finally found the problem.  The wires inside the left side marker were twisted together and the ground was touching the power lead inside the rubber cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I hooked them back up correctly and the short went away.  I then redid the wiring at the tail lights to put it back like the factory intended. now there is a fuse for the left and a fuse for the right. And a another fuse for the tag lights.  Germans like fuses I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks goodness I had this handy Short Circuit finder tool.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They say if you don;t use something in year you should get rid of it.  Well I don’t take that advice on tools. I can;t remember how many years its been since I last used this tool but today it was really handy to have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[542,210,515],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4404"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4491,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions\/4491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikestrawbridge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}