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Well I pulled up all the stuff covering the harness on the left side of engine compartment and went over every inch of the wires. There are no visible shorts within the engine compartment. I did have to move a family of mice out this car at one point, so its possible they chewed through a wire, even in the tunnel.
Dreading the thought of trying to pull a new wire all the way from the front of the car, through the tunnel to get to the 6 pin tail light connector.
I'm considering two different temporary measures until I get time off and can fix it right.
1. Fuse #2 is the license plate light. I could splice into that grey wire in the engine compartment and run that wire into pin #4 on the tail light harness, cutting the shorted wire off.
2. Splice into the wire on pin #4 of tail light connector on the right side of the engine compartment and run a wire into pin #4 of the tail light connector on the left side of the engine compartment, cutting the shorted wire. Both tail lights would be fused by fuse #3 instead of fuse 3 and 4.
timmy2: Any idea where the grey wire for the license plate light comes out in the engine compartment? Is it one of the grey wires that are also in the 6 pin taillight connector?
Either of these ideas sound worse than the other? They are both kinda ugly, but can easily be undone when I get the time to pull a new wire and fix it right.
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