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Originally Posted by Shern
I’m really not following your post here…
“ it worked as intended until yesterday“ huh?
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Light came on with the key and went out after starting and a blip of the accelerator. Then on Tuesday, that stopped happening, and I needed a jump start after stopping at a convenience store.
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And then what happened? The socket disappeared?
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Yes.
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Did you rip something out when you were pulling the cluster?
And if so, what’s left? You should at least have a wire.
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I thought of that. I searched every place it could have gone and still stayed in the car. My guess is that it fell out while driving, landed on my lap or my shoe, and wound up on the ground somewhere. I know it sounds unlikely, but that seems to be what happened. There isn't a wire. This socket goes into the back of the printed circuit board and connects electrically with the board.
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If the bulb burns out, the alternator will bootstrap itself after a certain RPM.
If you simply don’t have a bulb or especially socket you would’ve been having problems for a very long time.
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I ran it to the dots in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gears getting on the freeway on the way home from Reno. That wasn't enough to excite the alternator into charging.