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smoke from dash? 200 1988

While driving to work yesterday I didn't make it to the end of my street when smoke started pouring from the dashboard. I immediately cut the car off and investigated. Nothing that I could see was damaged, until that night. When I turned on the lights, nothing on the instrument panel lit up. This is what I think happened. I had taken my clock out last week to see what other useful gauge I could put in its place and failed to hook it back up, I just set it in the glove box. I think that maybe the positive and negative of the wires powering the clock touched. No fuse was blown, I "spun" them all, still nothing. My question is, given this information, where would you start looking? I'm assuming I am going to have to go behind the instrument panel with a voltmeter.








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    smoke from dash? 200 1988

    I'd try bypassing the rheostat. I've read here that others have found it goes bad. Even when it's working properly, it doesn't allow full voltage to flow through, as others have described getting brighter instrument lights when they bypassed it.

    at least it's a start.








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      smoke from dash? 200 1988

      Ive thought about it, before this occured actually, replacing the the lights with blue led. Someone said in http://brickboard.com/RWD/index.htm?id=866844 that fuse #5 controls the instrument lights. When i inspected this fuse it was fine, but theres nothing plugged up to the male end of the prong either. Is this normal? i noticed it was bent back further than the other fuses also, could this be my problem? I dont see how, but is there supposed to be anything plugged up to it?







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