thal

Hi All,

Problem: Removed high intensity headlight washer pump and disconnected main windshield washer tank level indicator connector. Now vehicle alarm system activates.

Additional info.: electrical taped individual leads that went to fluid level float, and electrical tape of T connector that went to high-intensity pump. no electrical shorts exist there.

Could anyone explain how the alarm system would be inter-related to a washer float indicator or power to windshield pump?

Thanks, Keith

Alan

It isn't - so you must have disturbed somthing else or it is a coincidence...

Check the hood switch that is the most likely cause...

Alan

thal

thanks Alan, i could not imagine how it would have been. it must have been coincidence since i was not even messing around near the hood switch. i appreciate the input.

keith

Landseer

Other than sharing a ground (intensive washer unit with the alarm's two tone horns) at the radiator, front, passenger side.

What is the condition of the ground? Did you need to remove the ground bolt in order to remove the intensive washer?

I'm still dubious of the hood switch too, as I had problems with one.

Do you want to bypass the factory alarm?

thal

actually yes, i would like to bypass the alarm. i looked for issues with moved wires, etc. and could see nothing.

Landseer

OK, this will help with your request.

The plugs are usually labled on their sides, plus, molded into the white plastic of the CE panel, just below each plug.

Z is black and short compared to others.

Looks to say "red", but its really Zed.

Labels on each wire are molded in small letters on the CE panel, so if you zoom-in with ctrl/spin mouse wheel, you will see the terminal numbers on the CE panel next to each male terminal. Z4 to Z6, as advised to me by Alan long, long ago, solves it.

Jumper is shown.

Alan

These aren't the alarm horns

Alan

Landseer

Right (as usual), those dual horns are indeed the steering wheel actuated ones, whereas the alarm duel horns share the ground on the Z2 wire, onto the bus within the CE panel, and presumably to the firewall grounds inside the cockpit.

So there is nothing whatsoever linking those circuits.