Why, oh why does the wierd chit happen to me?
Ok... picture this... I'm in the engine fusebox... and I have a friend in the driver seat to turn the headlights on while I look at and listen to see if something clicks/trips in the fusebox... he's flipping the lights on and off every few seconds and the radio keeps turning off and on... I pull up on the fusebox housing just slightly, like not to intentionally move it but just like gripping it to lean down and listen... and it stops doing it... headlights on and off... and the radio steady and no flickering of inside lights... he tells me it stops the problem and I let go of fusebox and it starts doing it again... I lift up and it stops... I look all underneath the fusebox and no wires sticking out... it all looks fine... but just lifting up on it so slightly and this quirk stops happening.
So I put/wedge a piece of high temp closed cell foam, about 5" square, 1 1/2" thick, about the same footprint as the fusebox, underneath it to prop it up, and it works... no more problem! WTH??
I give up! Just by accident do I find this out... never in a million years would I have thought of doing this on purpose... why would lifting up on the fusebox change ANYTHING??? It's bolted to the side fender... it's plastic... it flexes up and down about and inch... Give me a break! It's 100+ degrees out... and I have to flip around and mess with this only to find out this wierd freeeking thing is fixed by unnatural forces... LOL!
Thanks for your input though Moncha...
I am tempted to take the fusebox off and take it apart to see if there's something more legitmate to fix... but I'm also scared that I may cause more problems that will need fixing in a wierder way... Should I leave well enough alone?
EDIT: I forgot to say... I did totally disconnect the oil gauge first (and I drew up an schematic I was going to post for you to see), before I found this flexible fusebox fix (The FFF), and it would still happen... so I reconnected the gauge before I did the FFF...
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