[DeTomaso] A new Pantera trivia topic: cigarette lighter

[Rob Dumoulin]

My solution was to buy an aftermarket accessory plug that was about the
same diameter as my stock lighter socket but had a cap on top. Since I
don't smoke and will never allow anybody to do so in my cars, I didn't want
an actual lighter in it. I needed to slightly enlarge the hole where the
lighter was, but it worked perfectly as an accessory plug. When I had the
interior recovered, though, I didn't recut the hole for it and haven't
missed it with everything I need hard-wired.

Since you can easily get to the wiring around the lighter, why not just
splice an accessory plug to it where you can hook up a CB or any other
accessory to it whenever you want  like this one?

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=two+wire+plugs&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&biw=1095&bih=508&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=4929681024358854376&sa=X&ei=aiqLT4yvAYGm8QTa-8zACQ&ved=0CIsBEPICMAM




On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Charles Engles <cengles at cox.net> wrote:

> Dear Forum,
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>                 I thought I would bring up a new topic since the blossom
> may be off the rose of the Dipstick mystery.
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>                 During preparations for the Road to Phoenix, I  found that
> the cigarette lighter does not have power for the CB.   Using all of my
> remedial electrical skills and knowledge, I have power all the way to the
> connections to the lighter plug near the ashtray.   It would seem to me
> that
> the cigarette lighter socket is shot.    While I know that the Pantera
> electrical system is not the most robust, I don't recall hearing that the
> lighter sockets are particularly fragile.    I am going to hard wire a fix
> around the dead socket so I should have communications.    Has anyone else
> had their cigarette lighter go up in figurative "smoke"?
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>                             Curious, but still working on the Pantera,
> Chuck Engles
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