[DeTomaso] Voltage Reg Part Number

[JDeRyke at aol.com]

in a message dated 2/15/08 10:44:40 AM, garth_rodericks at yahoo.com writes:

> Uh, they do fail. They may last longer, but they're not immortal. I've 
> replaced 2 on my Mustang and one on the Pantera.
> 
Yup. And if you take the cover off a 'modern' one, you find a tiny 1" circuit 
board with some components on it, and little else. I once had an unusual 
intermittent "regulator" failure on a Pantera. I finally removed the thing to a 
bench to thoroughly check it out, and found one wire going into it was no longer 
there- only a thin line of green corrosion. Apparently water had gotten on 
the wire near where a crimped pin is in the multiconnector, penetrated to the 
copper and essentially dissolved the copper for a distance of about a half inch 
inside the undamaged insulation! This was an Eastern car where salt on winter 
roads is a way of life. The problem was, the thing worked- sort of- when the 
local weather was damp and the corrosion-line was conductive. FWIW- J DeRyke



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