[DeTomaso] Minor update: Two dumb techno questions

[Charles Engles]

Dear Forum,


             Updates from the Pantera Research Institute Engineering 
Department:

             Fuel sender problem:  greatly improved by simply soaking in a 
tank of gasoline and waiting.

              Bad Starter problem:  the first attempt with a modest 4 gauge 
short extra ground cable has turned the embarassing hot restart problem into 
a no-drama quick restart!


                 Thanks guys.


                                 Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Engles" <cengles at cox.net>
To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 4:54 PM
Subject: [DeTomaso] Two dumb techno questions


> Dear Forum,
>
>
>               I have two dumb problems to deal with.
>
>              1) Bad fuel gauge problem.    The car has been sitting for 
> three (!) years during an engine build with the tank drained.   Now that 
> it is up and running the gauge has gone wonky.  It either reads empty or 
> flashes back and forth from full to empty erratically.
>
>                  Is the gauge terminal?
>
>
>
>
>              2)  Bad starter problem.    The other car has a West Coast 
> Starter (San Diego) circa 1997.   It always starts up at the first start 
> of the day, but any re-start after that is a painfully slow 
> "whrrr-pause-whrrrrrrr-pause-whrrr-pause-whrrr" etc. lasting a painful 
> 10-20 secs before it starts.   Today, I came in from an errand and turned 
> the car off and then immediately tried to re-start it.   Same thing.
>
>                 Is the starter bad?   It doesn't seem to be the battery. 
> This problem has been getting incrementally worse over the last year.
>
>
>
>                                If its not one thing-----its another, 
> Chuck Engles
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