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Urgent question about ground wiring!
Posted by sadface [Email] (more from sadface) on Sat, 24 Jan 2015 12:21:45
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Please read carefully and please don't say anything you're unsure of; I need true answers or no answers at all. I don't want to make this worse:
I am relocating my headlight switch on my 02 Viggen and made a really stupid mistake by forgetting to disconnect the battery. In cutting the wires I shorted from the hot lead to the tiny ground wire, and in an instant fried the insulation on that ground wire. That goes right into a massive wire harness which snakes all throughout the dash, so replacing that wire is kind of out of the question. It eventually ends up at ground point E2 in front of the passenger door.
There are several connections at E2. From the ground wire at the switch location, I am getting continuity between all of the different ground leads feeding to the E2 location (and yes I am isolating each one as I test them).
So the question is, is there any junction point that is hidden back in the dash that would explain the continuity, or did I somehow manage to fry through into 3+ different wires? Keep in mind I didn't short through that ground for more than about 1 second or so, it was very quick.
My concern is not so much that I am making contact with other grounds, but that I may be making contact with non-ground wires in the harness.
Thank you very much!
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