[DeTomaso] Gee, I wonder what Asa Jay did in his garage tonight.

[Asa Jay Laughton]

I'm glad you asked.

Well, last night I ordered more supplies from Summit Racing.  The 
expansion / fill tank I want is backordered.  ARGH!  Estimated ship date 
is July 18.  Drat!  Well that won't stop me from putting the new cooling 
system together up to that point anyway.  I have settled on a plan, I 
just need to get an external thermostat and I should have all the 
specialty parts I need.  Then it's a trip to the hardware store for some 
copper tubing.  Once I got all the pieces, tubes, rubber hoses and tanks 
out of the car, the job looks a lot easier now.   My plan is to attack 
as much of the cooling system piping as I can this weekend.  Being a 
holiday weekend I hope to have more time to work on the car.

Anyway, tonight I took a break to look at the wiring necessary to drive 
the new sucker fans.  Wow!  What a mess.  My original pusher fans were 
wired to come on as soon as the key was turned on.  The two pairs of 
wires that normally go to the thermostatic switches in the radiator were 
simply jumpered.  Only one of two fan relays was in use, driving both 
fans.  Splices and jumpers and even stuff I can't identify was in 
there.  I had one electrical cylinder fused relay looking kind of thingy 
that I still don't know what it is, but I don't think it came stock on 
the car.  I also have one unidentified relay in the trunk with -no- 
wires going to it at all.

In addition, I removed an air horn that had been installed by someone 
else previously.  I found it was being driven by the same hot wire 
driving the original horns behind the passenger headlight.  I don't know 
if the orignals work, I'll test them later.  If they don't, I'll buy a 
set of horns more fitting and mount them in a better spot than the air 
horns were to start with, which was right behind the radiator.  I 
believe at one time I was told the air horns were stock, but after 
finding the two behind the headlight and the crappy way it was wired, 
I'm think -no-, wrong answer.

For those who would like to see photos... would I disappoint?

http://www.teampanteraracing.com/index.php?option=com_g2bridge&view=gallery&Itemid=57&g2_itemId=2702

More comments with the photos.

Unless of course you have your -Asa- filter turned on and are tired of 
living vicariously through me and my exploits. :)

If you have any insight or answers (or know how much I can get for this 
Maserati part) please let me know.
Asa Jay

Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired

& Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA

1971 Mach I Mustang  [ASA JAY]
1973 Pantera L 5533  [ASASCAT]
    
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