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

[cengles at cox.net]

Dear Pat,

Ah, now I think I understand. The repair job will start today. Thanks.

Warmest regards, Chuck Engles


---- PersoCaddy at aol.com wrote:
>What is happening is the +12 volts from the lighter is going to a ground connection and lighting up stuff. The lights do not care about the direction of the current they are D.C. devices. In a message dated 8/11/2010 11:09:18 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, cengles at cox.net writes:
Dear Pat,
 
 
                   Yes…….but could that live cigarette lighter  connection-wire contact the shift linkage and produce the ghostly light problem?   If yes, then I can tackle that problem.   Heck, I almost understand where the confused electrons and smoke might be going!
 
 
                                Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles
 
 
 
From: PersoCaddy at aol.com [mailto:PersoCaddy at aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 10:04 PM
To: cengles at cox.net
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Techno question: where is this gremlin located?
 
You do know that the cigar lighter in the console is always live. Pat Orlando 1972 Yellow Pantera S/N 4011
 
In a message dated 8/11/2010 10:28:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, cengles at cox.net writes:
Dear Forum,





                 I need some electrical help.  I have just stumbled upon a
weird electrical gremlin.



                 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.





                 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??





                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.





                              Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles





                                 

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