flasher....? fuel guage....?

[ahale2772]

so my truck threw a bit of a wiring hissy fit, I replaced my rear wiring harness a while back and forgot to route it nice under the hood...my fault.... thought it was my powersteering going one day and turns out the steering shaft and the wiring harness made sweet love... .... I found it wrapped around the steering shaft about 8 times.

long story short, I dropped the tank pulled the harness and spent a day fixing anything that I thought might have got hurt (colum worked on the harness bad, pulled a few wares apart ect ect...). after that all was good for a month.

then my blinkers start effing up, one side blinks both sides blink, then they both start blinking fast....then they dont blink I replaced my flasher with a new stock style one...blinks the correct side but still blinks fast. I decided to throw a napa brand electronic flasher in, problem solved. it now blinks nice and slow....but what was making my stock flasher go crazy?

next issue....my fuel guage has always been the ONLY guage that works accuratly on my truck...ever since the day my wiring harness and steering shaft had intimate relations it has been eratic. I cant say I even know where to start on that one....any tips?

[PToombs]

....any tips?

Buy some wire ties!

[ellis93]

Any possibility that there might still be old wire going to the fuel sender. Like the ground. Or maybe the connection dirty.
The flasher probably just got hot causing the metal strip to get relaxed. Least that's my guess

[Richie O]

Pretty sure the ground wire for the fuel gauge comes from the rear. It hooks in with the tail light ground.

[ahale2772]

Pete I know, bonehead move on my part, changed the whole rear wiring harness in 3 hours one morning before work (430 am) I HAD to be at work that day, so I rushed it

Im thinking my old flasher was just that...old... but even when the new stock flasher was in it flashed like it was on extacy.

Im thinking you may have hit on it Richie, Im gona check the groaund situation out back,

I know all the connections are clean but ill have to check again, salty roads do amazing things

I was PISSED when my fuel guage decided to go on vacation, never once have I had a vehicle with an accurate fuel guage...also never once have I paid more than 800 bucks for a vehicle...those two facts may be related