Toyota Camry: '89 Camry Always On 24/7

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"Chris Hartley" <com> wrote in message
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Time to get out the crappy wiring circuits that Haynes and other
after-market manuals offer or try getting hold of a proper Toyota manual. It
sounds as tho the car has been in an accident perhaps and the wiring was
installed incorrectly? Or there maybe a relay jammed on due to welded
contacts.
I found modern cars electrics to be a PIA to fault-find without a decent
circuit.

Jason

I'm no electrical troubleshooting expert but I was able to 
Chris.
I don't know what you mean by "the ACC wire (pink & blue wire)is hot
on the battery side of the connection." "What is the Battery side"?
Once you unplug the wire harness(like you did) from the ignition
switch the ACC wire(Pink/Blue) does not have a "battery side" or a
voltage source.
The ACC wire starts at the ignition switch, and when UNPLUGED should
have NOTHING(0 volt)on it, if you are reading a voltage on it, than it
comes from another circuit in the car that was either tied to it
intentionally(can't imagine why), or there is a short in a wire
harness somewhere. I don't think the bypassed clutch switch is the
reason.
If the voltage that you read is on the switch itself(Ignition switch
off) then the switch is bad.
I looked at the electrical circuit diagrams for a 90 Camry, I don't
know how similar the 90 Camry is to the 89 Camry as far as electrical
circuits, but it shows that the first thing that the ACC wire goes to
are the Cigarette lighter fuse and the radio fuse, assuming that
the(hot)voltage that you read is on the ACC(pink/blu)wire when it's
UNPLUGGED from the ignition switch, remove the 2 fuses to see if the
voltage went away.
post back if that did not help and I'll dig deeper into the
diagrams(don't forget I'M LOOKING AT A 90 CAMRY DIAGRAM NOT 89.
hope this helps you
JerryR

Jerry,

Thanks for responding to my post. Let me clarify "the ACC wire (pink &
blue wire) is hot on the battery side of the connection" - sorry, bad
choice of wording on my part. The wire harness connection is the plug
connection at the base of the steering column under the dashboard with
the wires on one side of the connection going to the driver's side fuse
box and the wires on the other side of the connection traveling up the
steering column to the ignition switch where the key goes. Both sides
of connection have a pink & blue wire. When I use my voltage light to
test the ACC wire (pink & blue wire) on the side of the connection that
has wires going to the fuse box, or "battery side" (NOT the side going
up to the ignition switch), the wire was live. There were also two more
live wires at this point - the white "AM1" and white-red "AM2"; I assume
these are supposed to be hot, though, because according to my crappy
Haynes manual wiring diagram, they come straight from the battery. Hope
this isn't clear as mud.

Thanks for your suggestions regarding the fuses. I pulled the 15A Cigar
Fuse and the 7.5A Radio fuse with the car key out of the ignition.
The digital clock went out when I pulled the Cigar Fuse, but when I
pulled the Radio Fuse, I could still turn the radio on and off with no
key in the ignition.

I'm think this problem has something to do with the fuse panel - it's as
if something is tying the hot AM1 & AM2 wires (come from the battery,
through the firewall and into the fuse box) to the ACC wire that seems
to originate at the fuse box to travel up to the steering column.

Thanks for your help,
Chris H.

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