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I have a 1979 dodge ram 200 360 Class B motor home. My electrical lights for inside of camper have shorted and thus have no dome lights. Connections come from the reserve battery.Tec says they would n...
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Matt_Colie wrote:
BP,
As a Class B is basically a camper built inside a van shell, the dome lights may OR may not be OE. That much is just a crapshoot. If you can get that manual, it may indicate where the wiring is/was supposed to run. Don't count on it.
If it is shorted, it is blowing fuses. If this is true, I suggest that you connect test leads to a light bulb and watch it as you take apart every bit of the system you can fine. When that light goes out, you located the problem.
I had an issue like this that an owner asked me to look at. The above method was no help at all. So, I got out a wire tracker that puts a signal on the wire and you follow it with a hand held receiver. First I tracked from the power end and put a piece of tape where I lost the signal. Then the same from the nearest fixure....
Between those two was a hook that someone had screwed in. When it was removed, so was the short. They had nailed the wire.
Matt
x2. The old Dodge Van's had pretty simple electrical setup. My tenant had 79 Dodge Camper Van and I think the only electrical stuff was a couple of overhead lights and maybe a battery isolator in the engine compartment.
