az1966

I plug the hot wire onto the back of the ligher and every once in a while it kills the dash stuff and the radio,,bought new lighter asssmbly still happens,, I see a Ground? tab on the female end inside the dash but I 've never seen a wire hooked upto it only the hot wire,,any ideas would help ,,,,thanks

kalli

from your years wiring diagram there's a red wire cmonig through firewall to dash area.
This splits and one wire is going to emergency light flasher, the other to te cigarette lighter.
There's no ground cable on the cigarette lighter so it must get ground over the assembly to dash.

What do you mean with kills dash stuff and radio ? does it come back ? do you have to replace a fuse to fix it.
does it only happen when the cigarette lighter is pressed in. or at any stage ? you'll have to give us more infos ....

az1966

happens any time the wire is hooked up to the cigerette lighter period, radio dies, along with the dash lites and blows the fuse,,, if I leave the wire off everything is ok

Aussie66Fastback

you got a short there somewhere...is the wire to the lighter good? thats where id be looking

the dash is the earth for the lighter - the metal casing on the metal dash.

Aussie66Fastback

az, ignore the pm

the schematics are available on the net DOH!

try this

http://midlife66.com/wiring/wiring.html

kalli

You said you bought a new lighter assembly. was the lighter itself with it, or just the new housing ?

Kalli