short circuit

[jcb]

Well. I have the console out of the car while I replaced carpet and seats and headliner and ect. There is plug for the light in the console that is for the ashtray. There is also a ground wire with a bullet end that looks (at the time anyway) like it plugs into that console light plug. Yes, that's what I did. At some point in time, not sure when, I stuck the ground into that plug. When I was tracing the GW wire looking for the short circuit I discovered a branch going to the console and that it was connected to a black wire. Who the hell did that????????????. Some dumb sum bitc-. So everyone have a good laugh on me. An please know that I am 73 years old. JB

[SteveJ]

See, that wasn't so painful. The interesting thing is that most of the bullet connectors are wired so that the male end is ground and the female end is hot, so you don't accidentally ground the hot wire. Exceptions that I can think of are the brake light switch and the transmission neutral switch.

This is actually a good cautionary tale.