al hillman wrote:
Thanks for all the suggestions. I have seen signs of rodents so I believe there is a wiring harness problem. I have a freightliner chassis. How hard is it to replace the wiring harness?Do you have to pull the entire dash out? The engine cranks and headlights and signal lights work but no guages work-not even the air guages.
Al
You are making progress. PLEASE DO NOT PULL THE WIRING OUT OF THE DASH. Your instruments are fed from the common data bus from the VDU...this link goes to the dash cluster that interprets the data...and then feeds to instruments via a spider harness. You can actually pull all the wires from the instruments and reinstall them in a different order and they will still work WHEN THE SYSTEM IS WORKING CORRECTLY as each instruments only sees the data it needs from the harness. In other words, all data for the instruments goes to each instrument.
Please reference the Freightliner document I referenced in an earlier post on this thread. It has the troubleshooting steps to get your instruments working. I do not believe your problem is in the dash wiring.
Another great resource is the Freightliner help desk.
CUSTOMER SUPPORT CENTER
1-800-FTL-HELP (1-800-385-4357)
This is a free service and they will help you or your mobile technician with the troubleshooting. When you call them, have the last 6 digits of your Freightliner Chassis VIN number available as they use this to look up your chassis info.
I hope this info helps.
Fred