Intertia Switch Help

[Craigerz]

So I have searched around and know what is what. I have the fuel reset light coming on. It hasn't had any effect on the truck stalling or not running.

The weirdest thing is as soon as all the doors are shut, it goes off. Open a door and its on. As soon as they are closed again it goes off. All the time, not just intermittently. But, as I said it doesn't have any effect on the truck. An the inertia switch isn't popping up.

Its more annoying than anything, and there is very limited info on the fuel reset light on here. But if its a quick fix that would be awesome. I've been using it as a door ajar light lol.

I am kind of leaning towards a short somewhere in the dash that is getting a signal from the door ajar? It did have one of those after market anti theft things on it. It hooks into the ignition and looks like a circuit board you pull out, about the size of a memory stick when you want to disable it. It's been off for awhile now though, and this has done it even before I took it off.

Another thing is, I know the switch is just a breaker, so I could jump the wires to test it? I don't think its bad just ruling it out. Also, if it ever turned out to be bad, like on the side of the road in the middle of the night, could I jump it to make it run and get home on? That would be more useful to know than anything. If its a short I'm just going to deal, not up for tracing wires at the moment.

 

[Mbrooks420]

If the switch were bad, I don’t think it’d run. It’s just a switch so I’m sure you could bypass it. I think you have to be tight about ha big a short between the door ajar circuit and the fuel reset light.

 

[Runnin'OnEmpty]

........Another thing is, I know the switch is just a breaker, so I could jump the wires to test it? I don't think its bad just ruling it out. Also, if it ever turned out to be bad, like on the side of the road in the middle of the night, could I jump it to make it run and get home on? That would be more useful to know than anything. If its a short I'm just going to deal, not up for tracing wires at the moment.

You can jump the inertia switch by using a bent paper clip pushed into the plug terminals. I doubt if the switch is the problem though. It sounds like the door light switch is grounding the fuel warning light somehow.

 

[Craigerz]

It started beeping at me going down the road the past few days. About every 45 seconds or so and stay on randomly. Pulled the switch and bypassed it. Not a switch issue. Pulled the instrument panel that has to be where it’s grounding out. I don’t really know how to explain it unless you’ve seen the back of the cluster. The “circuit board” that looks like flexible plastic sheeting was bubbling and warped. Checked all the bulbs to see if it was a fail safe for a check your bulbs ones out. All the bulbs were good.

So I feel safe that’s where it’s coming from. So I pulled the bulb and pulled the chime out from behind the radio. I hated that thing anyways.