[DeTomaso] Dead In The Water

[Art Stephens]

> Do you still have a ballast in your system?  That's the way my acted when
> mine went out. <

        Is that the thing that looks like a condensor on right side of the 
firewall? If so,  yes I still have one.  But it seems to me that shouldn't 
affect the seat belt light going off when the engine dies?  I haven't been 
able to duplicate the problem for awhile,  so I haven't been able to see if 
all guauges go dead when the engine dies,  I suspect that they do.  If that 
is the case,  it wouldn't be the ballast resistor would it?

Thanks,
Art






> -----Original Message-----
> From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] 
> On
> Behalf Of Art Stephens
> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 10:34 AM
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: [DeTomaso] Dead In The Water
>
>     I fired up the car this morning and everything was normal with the
> engine idling until it just quit running.  I thought that was odd so I 
> fired
> it up again and a few seconds later it quit again.  I fired it up again 
> and
> it was ran normally. I then took it for a drive and I didn't get a block
> away before it quit while I was driving along in first or second gear.  I
> left it in gear as I rolled along and it re-lit for a few seconds only to
> quit again.  I fired it up and drove back home with no more trouble.  The
> way it died,  I'm sure it is electrical.  There was no coughing or
> sputtering,  it would just stop deader than a beaver hat and then 
> re-light.
> I wiggled the wires I could reach with the engine running and could not 
> make
> it die.  I'm headed out to pull the engine cover in the cab so that I can
> access the front of the distributor and try to figure out what is wrong. 
> Any
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Art
>
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