Trunk Pull-down Motor - F-Body Online

strc09 · 05-01-2008, 07:18 AM

Both my wife and I have one of these on our cars. The one on my GTA functions perfectly. The one on my wife's Formula...not so much. I've replaced the motor and the reversing switch. I've tested all of the plugs and wires with a test light and I've got power to everything, but still having difficulties getting it working. I found that if I use the test light and stick it into one of the holes on the bottom of the reversing switch I can get the trunk light to come on. Sweet. I hooked it up to the motor...even better because the motor works.

Here's where it gets weird. As soon as I hook it all up and the switch is trip the entire circuit goes dead. I pull the switch back off and put the test light to it again and everything works until I put it back on the motor and it all goes dead again. I'm at a complete loss with why it is doing this. It doesn't make any sense.

I'm hoping someone might have some insight for me or give me an idea of something I might have missed. Thanks in advance.

19Stroked89 · 05-01-2008, 04:02 PM

That is weird. I wonder if maybe its the motor itself thats bad and causing this? Might try a different motor and see if this still happens.

joelster · 05-01-2008, 04:11 PM

Swap motors from one car to the other and see what happens.

strc09 · 05-01-2008, 09:45 PM

Thw motor works. I hooked it all up before I put the motor in and it works. It's just when the switch is triggered the entire circuit dies. I don't understand why. Also the only way I can get the switch to reset is when I poke it with the test light...the weirder thing is I can't just stick the tip of the light into the hole to rest it, the test light has to be grounded so that it lights up when I do it.

19Stroked89 · 05-02-2008, 05:16 AM

Sounds like you might have a wicked short somewhere. Maybe time to start tracing wires.

strc09 · 05-02-2008, 07:16 AM

That's the thing...I freakin' hate wiring and I was lucky I was able to test the stuff. Even after the switch kills the system, if I test each of the wires and plugs the correct wires are hot. What I want to do it just swap out the entire thing with a manual remote release hatch and be done with it.