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Re: Intermittent electrical problem -- help!

To: Ajhsys@aol.com
Subject: Re: Intermittent electrical problem -- help!
From: "Mark A. Wise" <wisem@db.erau.edu>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 10:19:05 -0400 (EDT)
>Make sure the instrument voltage regulator is good too. 

Can anyone tell me where the instrument voltage regulator is located?

- Mark


On Tue, 15 May 2001 Ajhsys@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 5/14/01 7:37:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> wisem@db.erau.edu writes:
> 
> 
> > 
> > However, that did not do the trick -- the instruments still aren't 
> > working.  Any other ideas on the problem?  Or how I can find it in a 
> > 
> 
> - - - - - - - - - - - -
> 
> The Prince of Darkness does not create problems in a scientific manner, so 
> why should you be able to track one down that way!?!  :-)
> 
> Have you made enlargements of the wiring diagram of your car and hi-lited all 
> the wires in the offending circuit?  This is a trick that I post about twice 
> a year, hoping it will sink in.  It makes it easier to trace the wires.
> 
> Get some wires with aligator clpis on both ends at your local Radio Shack.  
> Create a parallel wire with the jumpers and replace each wire in the circuit 
> until you find the one that is bad.  
> 
> Alternate plan - take apart every connector on every wire in the problem 
> circuit.  (Do them one at a time so you don't get too confused.)  Clean them 
> with a can of TV Tuner Cleaner (also available at Radio Shack) and a small 
> wire brush or steel wool.  Crimp them with pliers so they are tight.
> 
> Make sure the instrument voltage regulator is good too.
> 
> Does anybody remember taking apart your old mechanical TV tuner and cleaning 
> the contacts?  And they still make the spray for it.
> 
> Allen Hefner
> SCCA Philly Region Rally Steward
> '77 Midget
> '92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport

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