patricks85z28

This tilt steering wheel is blowing my wiper fuse every time i tilt up

TylerSteez

iTrader: (3)

bare wire making contact and shorting on a piece of metal in the column when the steering wheel is moved is my best guess

patricks85z28

Ive got the whole steering column into pieces and i dont see an exposed wire on the switch harness. Maybe there are some wires that are under the tilt cover that i cant seem to take off

patricks85z28

0 wires that are exposed on the wiper switch itself

mdtoren

could be a hairline crack in the insulation of a wire, just enough to let voltage out as it moves around with the column. Im trying to think of any other possibilities but Im coming up blank.

patricks85z28

Ive spent hours lookings very close to see if i could find anything but im stomped lol

patricks85z28

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bigal55

iTrader: (1)

If you have a test light, connect one end to +12 volts and probe the wires coming from the wiper switch. The white wire is power going to the switch, the grn, gry, pink and ppl are the signal wires coming from the switch to the wiper/washer assy. Probe those 4 wires as you tilt the column up. If the test light lights up, you found the wire that is shorting to ground. If you don't find any of those 4 wires turns on the light, test the white power wire. To do this, remove the fuse and probe the fuse terminal that goes out to the switch. If it shorts out, the test light should light. HTH!

G.Penrod

It's not as pretty but you could wrap each wire in electrical tape around where it swivels and see if that helps. If it does then you know its a wire issue at the swivel, if not it's somewhere else.

M G Brewer

I had the same problem and it was with the wiper lever/switch. When I replaced it the problem went away.

patricks85z28

I think im going to try this method today and see what happens.