[DeTomaso] Techno question: where is this gremlin located?

[Asa Jay Laughton]

Time to take the ashtray out and check all the wires under there to the 
tray and the lighter.  If something came apart, or the little protector 
boots came off the connectors, you could be making contact to wires via 
the shift linkage in the console.

Just a thought.

Asa Jay

Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
&  Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA
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On 8/11/2010 19:27,  Charles Engles wrote:
> Dear Forum,
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>                   I need some electrical help.  I have just stumbled upon a
> weird electrical gremlin.
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>                   I needed to futz with the shift linkage.   I got my
> eighteen year old daughter to help with the shifter.   The  key is not in
> the ignition.   I demonstrate to her how to step on the clutch and move the
> shifter through the gears.   As I am doing this, I notice that the dash
> lights seemed to come on.   My daughter confirmed that I wasn't seeing
> things.   As she sat in the seat and I went to the back to watch the linkage
> as she shifted she remarked and I could see through the window that the
> lights were coming off and on with movement of the shifter!!     We finish
> that task and I stoop over and proceed to manually move the shift linkage
> from the ZF end.  I step away from the car and notice that now my brake
> lights are on!     I jiggle and wiggle the shift linkage a bit and they go
> off.   The reverse light did not come on.
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>                   Does anyone understand this weirdness?    Given my remedial
> auto electrical knowledge, I think something is shorting out somewhere, but
> where and how the devil is it related to the shift linkage??
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>                  I hate electrical problems----and I still haven't got the
> shift linkage problem squared away.  Sigh.   If it is not one darn
> thing---it is another.
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>                                Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles
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