I have spent the past days on the floor, exercising my back muscles so I can again become mobile. going for the front fenders now, anticipate being back on here early afternoon with more information.. slow going for sure.

 

shouldnt have to removed fenders..can get to everything by removing inner fenders...

 

got fenders off earlier, I can't bend hardly at all and it has a dealer mounted winch that takes up most of the space under the plastic. however when I disconnected the dash plug, the beep went away. so, tomorrow I will jump each pin to its corresponding socket one at a time and see if anyone causes it to beep again. I suspect I will need to check the diagram and at least hook up a neg to be constantly connected between the plug and socket if it has one, while I do my testing.
my old eyeballs can't see well enuf at night to look at the wiring diagram so it will be a tomorrow job.
am I going in the right direction ?
thanks again. . .
davidh

 

back at it again. I did make a jumper wire to connect the two brown wires together. (just like having the plug put together but only the brown wire. . .) then I took another test lead and connected to each post on the "hot side " of the plug, and with a pin connected to the test lead on the other end, I poked it into each of the contacts on the plug that's connected to the meter. all this time I have the beep tester attached to the battery ground and cable ground. no sounds came from that.
next, I attached a jumper from the brown wire that's still hooked onto the two halves of the plug and touched the bl/red stripe on plug and full loud beep came from the tester. looking at the diagram, I see that the bl/red stripe wire goes to the ignition, ok.
where should I go from this point forward ? ? ?

 

since I have not seen any replys, I ordered a new dash digital display. both my foreman es have used up the displays so im just hoping that this is my problem. expected by the end of the coming week. I will post a new reply after its here and connected. . . . thanks for reading.

 

the new dash arrived today. . I plugged it in and the short is still rearing its ugly head. dammm thing.
where did papa hogg scoot disappear to ? ? ?