Rich -
Most of these "gremlins" are a result of grounding problems somewhere in the
car. Start with the battery ground and work your way to the smaller ones.
Use a wiring schematic for your car to identify where these grounds are
located.
Whenever you have strange things like you mentioned - brake lights turning
on front lights - it means the LUCAS system is searching for a ground
somewhere else, i.e., your well-grounded front parking lights.
Jerry Christopherson(JCMC2006@suddenlink.net)
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From: tigers-bounces+jcmc2006=suddenlink.net@autox.team.net
[mailto:tigers-bounces+jcmc2006=suddenlink.net@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of
Richard Bruner
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 9:48 PM
To: Tigers@Autox. Team. Net
Subject: [Tigers] Electrical Gremlins
I just got home from a drive to a cruise nite 35 miles away. I was afraid I
wasn't going to make it home. Several problems cropped up, maybe all
unrelated but who knows.
For starters, the car began running rough, like it was dropping cylinders,
and
would die at intersections. The car does have a Pertronix installed, if
this
makes any difference. It ran fine the last time I drove it a week or so
ago.
The dash lights would not work, then they began glowing faintly for a brief
moment, then they went out again, so I turned the switch off.
When I finally got home and turned the ignition switch off, the car kept
running no matter what I did with the key position. I kept turning it off
and
back on, and it finally killed the ignition.
I also noticed hitting the brake pedal would cause the front parking lights
to
come on. I know the front housings are properly grounded because I had
problems before and ran jumper wires from the housings to ground.
Does anyone have any suggestions where to start to possibly help save some
time?
Richard
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