1988 XJS.
Every few days, my 7.5 amp fuse blows, rendering no directional indicators and brake lights. I’m suspecting a bad brake light socket, but I see the fuse also is for “gearbox override switch”. What is that?
1988 XJS.
Every few days, my 7.5 amp fuse blows, rendering no directional indicators and brake lights. I’m suspecting a bad brake light socket, but I see the fuse also is for “gearbox override switch”. What is that?
Is it transmission kickdown switch or neutral safety switch or ?
Greg,
Don’t know if they did any changes for the 88MY but my 86 has only two gerabox related switches, kickdown and N safety switch.
Take your pick, but I think that the kickdown has a fused labeled “kickdown switch”.
Aristides
What did you do last…have you changed any light bulbs lately…is a bulb in correctly. …etc…didn’t you have another post telling about mods to your kickdown switch…seems like re engineering may lead to more problems
i had changed all brake bulbs a couple months ago. The left rear bulb was corroded in place, I’m guessing I could have a bad socket there.
I ended up making no mods to the kickdown switch. If the kickdown switch is on this fuse, I have temporarily removed the two leads to test. If that’s not it, then I’ll remove left rear brake bulb and see if that keeps fuse from blowing.
I guess I can remove fuse and see if my neutral safety switch works? Duh.
There’s also a reverse light switch.
I have seen the wrong bulb put in a socket and it shorted out…like when some one puts a single contact bulb in a two contact socket. Or some such nonsense …viceversa. …anyway try removing things to isolate the problematic thing
Yes, that’s what I’m doing.
Assuming kickdown switch first, I’ve disconnected that.