That makes me feel a whole lot better about my last minute decision to stay home yesterday. Julian ________________________________ From: DeTomaso <detomaso-bounces@server.detomasolist.com> on behalf of Larry Stock <larrys@panteraparts.com> Sent: Monday, October 3, 2016 7:14 AM To: MikeLDrew@aol.com Cc: detomaso@server.detomasolist.com Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Alternator blues.... Hey Mike, After we left you yesterday afternoon, The trip back over the Sierra¹s last night was horrific. Rain started just above Placerville as we hydroplaned many times the rain was so heavy. The snow started below 6000 feet causing white out conditions several times. At the top of Echo summit there was a Bad Head On collision that closed the highway in both directions for quite a while. Certainly no place for Pantera¹s yesterday evening. Apparently The Reno Tahoe Pantera¹s stayed in place for good reasons. Larry On 10/2/16, 9:11 PM, "DeTomaso on behalf of Mike Drew via DeTomaso" <detomaso-bounces@server.detomasolist.com on behalf of detomaso@server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
Hi guys, Just got home from a terrific weekend in the Sierra foothills; 24 Panteras (of the 36 scheduled) took part in the Niello concours at Serrano. It heaved down with rain for a very brief period, but that rain then turned to snow which kept the large Reno/Tahoe contingent from braving the summit. Still, a great time was had by all who attended, and we drove home in splendid sunshine. We were driving in Lori's Pantera, which has a flat firewall kit and uses a GM alternator with built-in regulator. She drove the car to Vegas this spring, and the alternator failed while we were there. At first it started acting erratic, with the amp needle bouncing around, and then finally it quit and just showed a partial discharge. Testing at the battery revealed it was doing nothing at that point. We replaced it with another one, which did exactly the same thing and failed about 50 miles from home. We replaced THAT one, and the third one has worked fine until today. But it probably only has about 250 miles on it or so. On the way home, once again, I noticed the ammeter needle behaving erratically, then it quit and showed partial discharge for many miles, then briefly came back to life and showed a very strong charge (since we had been running on battery power for awhile), then discharged again. Methinks the problem is not simply that alternators are failing, but rather that there is some sort of fault in the electrical system. As electrons are far from my strong suit, I hesitate to start diving it to it blindly. What say all of you? FWIW we've got a spare alternator we will be installing tomorrow, which almost assuredly will work just fine...for awhile anyway???? Mike _______________________________________________
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Hi guys, Just got home from a terrific weekend in the Sierra foothills; 24 Panteras (of the 36 scheduled) took part in the Niello concours at Serrano. It heaved down with rain for a very brief period, but
rain then turned to snow which kept the large Reno/Tahoe contingent from braving the summit. Still, a great time was had by all who attended, and we drove home in splendid sunshine. We were driving in Lori's Pantera, which has a flat firewall kit and uses a GM alternator with built-in regulator. She drove the car to Vegas this spring, and the alternator failed while we were there. At first it started acting erratic, with the amp needle bouncing around, and then finally it quit and just showed a partial discharge. Testing at the battery revealed it was doing nothing at that point. We replaced it with another one, which did exactly the same thing and failed about 50 miles from home. We replaced THAT one, and the third one has worked fine until today. But it probably only has about 250 miles on it or so. On the way home, once again, I noticed the ammeter needle behaving erratically, then it quit and showed partial discharge for many miles, then briefly came back to life and showed a very strong charge (since we had been running on battery power for awhile), then discharged again. Methinks the problem is not simply that alternators are failing, but rather that there is some sort of fault in the electrical system. As electrons are far from my strong suit, I hesitate to start diving it to it blindly. What say all of you? FWIW we've got a spare alternator we will be installing tomorrow, which almost assuredly will work just fine...for awhile anyway???? Mike _______________________________________________
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_______________________________________________ Detomaso Email List is not managed by POCA Posted emails must not exceed 1.5 Megabytes DeTomaso mailing list DeTomaso@server.detomasolist.com http://server.detomasolist.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso DeTomaso Info Page<http://server.detomasolist.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso> server.detomasolist.com This is the DeTomaso mailing list, a free and open forum for the discussion of issues surrounding all DeTomaso automobiles. This is an unmoderated mailing list ... To manage your subscription (change email address, unsubscribe, etc.) use the links above. Members who post to this list grant license to the list to forward any message posted here to all past, current, or future members of the list. They also grant the list owner permission to maintain an archive or approve the archiving of list messages. That makes me feel a whole lot better about my last minute decision to stay home yesterday. Julian __________________________________________________________________ From: DeTomaso <detomaso-bounces@server.detomasolist.com> on behalf of Larry Stock <larrys@panteraparts.com> Sent: Monday, October 3, 2016 7:14 AM To: MikeLDrew@aol.com Cc: detomaso@server.detomasolist.com Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Alternator blues.... Hey Mike, After we left you yesterday afternoon, The trip back over the Sierra^1s last night was horrific. Rain started just above Placerville as we hydroplaned many times the rain was so heavy. The snow started below 6000 feet causing white out conditions several times. At the top of Echo summit there was a Bad Head On collision that closed the highway in both directions for quite a while. Certainly no place for Pantera^1s yesterday evening. Apparently The Reno Tahoe Pantera^1s stayed in place for good reasons. Larry On 10/2/16, 9:11 PM, "DeTomaso on behalf of Mike Drew via DeTomaso" <detomaso-bounces@server.detomasolist.com on behalf of detomaso@server.detomasolist.com> wrote: that list.
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