last one, I swear: interior lights? window switch?

[RWC]

When I first looked at the Wag, the interior lights came on when I opened the door. When I went to pick it up, they didn't. I also don't have any lights in my overhead console, although the compass and thermometer both work just fine. The wiring diagram looks like it just leads back to a fuse as the only possible source of trouble, but my fuses are all good. Are there any relays for this system that are related and/or might be out? Where?

Also, the right rear window has never worked. Putting 12v directly to the motor makes it go up and down just fine, but when running it off either the multi-switch or the local switch, it only goes down. I just disconnected the motor for the time-being, but I'd love to make it go back up with the switch too. Is it the local switch itself that's busted?

RWC

[reddog]

The interior lights do not come on when any of the doors are opened? Check the bulb? Pull one of the door jamb switches and ground the wire that connects to it. If the lights come on then the switch is bad.

The switch in the tailgate is usually the most likely problem. Figures it is also the hardest part to replace. I just went through repairing mine. not a difficult job but a PITA. Look in the tech section for a pretty good write up on chasing down tailgate problems.

Kerry

[RWC]

The lower interior lights come on when activated manually with the dial-switch on the dash, so I KNOW the lower bulbs all work fine. NO OVERHEAD light works, but like I said, they worked the very first time I looked at it. And I'm afraid to ask how I get to a door-jamb switches; it looked like I have to pull the interior panel, which requries pulling the parking brake bracket.

I'm not talking about the REAR window, but the RIGHT REAR window, in the passenger side rear door.

[I went through the tailgate shortly after I got the Wag and immediately gave up hope. It's all rusted away to pieces, and the DSPO had a chunk of an old yardstick holding up one side of the window. I pulled the rusted bits of the track out and was able to lower the window (the motor does work when I give it direct 12v), but the mechanism to actually open the tailgate is rusted beyond repair. It's going to need a complete replacement assembly and a torch to pull the old one out.]

RWC

[andy d]

if the footwell lights come on and not the dome lights if all the doors are open. then you prolly have a rustbelt jeep. this has happened to all four of my wags, i just havent bothered to fix it yet in the 88. th feed to the dome light has parted,most likely spot is under the carpet just as it enters the B pillar on the left side. its a wet area and the wire rots out. the PITA is that to get to it you have to to remove the driver's seat belt reel. itsa big torx head bolt.if the rig has a tranny leak or a bad rearmain seal, you may have no trouble :D i repaired the wire by splicing in a piece of new wire. the right rear window is prolly a combination of dry binding channels and a poor contact in the switches . if you help the window up with your hand will it go up? if so then id lube the channels with silicone dry lube

[RWC]

I went through the door-jamb switches and now the footwell lights come on for the front doors, but not the rear. I couldn't get any power feed for the rear switches.

Thanks for the info on the dome lights, but with the '89 I thought the overhead console harness came down from the A-pillar?

The right rear window goes up and down just fine when I apply 12 volts directly to the motor. On either switch, it does nothing.

RWC

[andy d]

doh, you have an 89. ill bet if the dome light is still a separate unit then it is fed from the B pillar. try to trace the wires from the light.

[reddog]

Me Bad...

Sounds like a wire issue with both the window and the dome light. Start at the connector andy mentions. If the jamb switches in the rear are dead then the wire between the light and the switch (or corrosion at the connections) is the problem.

Kerry