in trouble shooting anything.... always check the things you fixed
first.... it is most often the last thing you did.. "right" that is
Wrong.... seriously... it has worked for me most my life....
Kinda like Carbs... hell 90% of the time it isn't in the carbs... but in
the Ignition system... but folks know how to Play with Carbs.... not
Ignitions...
Keith Turk
Austin Healey 100 / Bugeye / Box Sprite / Bonneville Land Speed Racer
Camaro ( D Gas Altered )
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> From: Swift Justice <samesq@pacbell.net>
> To: Peter C. <nosimport@mailbag.com>
> Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Red light district revisited
> Date: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 10:18 PM
>
>
>
> Peter C. wrote:
>
> > Listers,
> > Last week I gave a woefully inadequate response to what the IGN
light is
> > about when it is on with the key out or with the engine running. Dan
> > Masters, over on the Tr**mph list, explains it and a LOT more at
> > http://www.vtr.org/maintain/alternator-overview.html clear and
concise
> > even for me! There is more information provided by that light than I
> > thought! fergit them guages
>
> Hi Peter and gang et al
>
> I thought your explanation was very good at the time and helped me
out.
> Unfortunately, it was not the problem. Seems that a DCO (dumb current
owner) in his
> haste to get the fuse box back in and connected, put the dumb thing in
upside down.
> This is significant in that two of the fuse terminals on one side are
linked
> together underneath (the ones on the right and left side lighting system
fuses)
> Reversing them causes constant power to go through the two leads from the
brown
> wire, which powers the line for the oil pressure light, which feeds power
back
> through the ignition switch... this produces the same symptoms as the
alternator
> problem, which had me scratching my head for a while until I figured out
where it
> was I blundered...
>
> At any rate, the once dead is now alive again.
>
> Steve.
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