The Left Hand Side is going pffffft.

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What follows is a list of electrical issues dealing with the truck or household items that have suffered electrical disconnects.

• The connector for the driver's side headlamp seems to have overheated, and the ground burned up, resulting in replacement. So far, so good. This is most likely at least partly due to the ECM telling the alternator to crank out more voltage than it really needs to over an extended time.


• Last night, I discovered the left turn signal on the tail light wasn't working...again. First time round I just changed the bulb and all was well. This time I found the real culprit. A butt splice near the main connector to the tail light harness had corroded through and broken. So, had to risk the drive down to McCoy Freightliner and get another one. That's install now, so corrected.


• Now I discover on this old HP keyboard that I got from Goodwill that the D key has stopped working. It already had a couple that weren't working, like the - key on the keypad, but those were easy to work around. Not so much with the D. So...looks like back to Goodwill for another round, since it's a USB keyboard, and the only spare I have is PS2, which ain't gonna work.


• One on of our ScanGuages there's some solder joints that have broken, resulting in no backlight to the screen of any kind or color. It will be delicate to fix, but doable.

What do all these have in common? They're all electrical breakages that occurred on the left hand side. I keep wondering if this is the gods trying to tell me something, but if so, what? I need to contemplate this more.

Now as you can see from our location, I'm back home! So that much is good. More on this later as CCleaner wants to shut down Firefox which I'm using to type this entry up. So see ya in a few!