[DeTomaso] The basic things

[Corey Price]

I had a 5.0 Mustang that died on the freeway one day.  I towed it home, and started troubleshooting.  After removing the fuel pump, gas tank, tracking wiring, etc, I found it was a simple fusible link... (Insert Homer Simpson exclamation here)

Corey



On Feb 28, 2012, at 12:10 AM, "Mikael" <mikael_hass at mail.tele.dk> wrote:

> Just a few thoughts on how we should always check the basic things first:
> 
> 1.    For more than a year my Longchamp had a poor idle. Being the author of
> www.tuningmadeeasy.com, I found that a personal embarrassment. I often
> adjusted, it got a lot better, but then when hot(ter), idle got bad again.
> Problem was vacuum leak at turkey pan intake gasket. New gasket, problem
> gone
> 
> 2.    Same beloved Longchamp had issues starting when hot. I often needed to
> press the accelerator all the way to the floor to clear the gas so the
> starter could overpower the early ignition. Also needed to drive with less
> than optimum ignition timing, which of course made 1. worse. Solution was
> new ground wire from battery to engine. The incumbent wire goes all the way
> to the drivers footwell where there's a cutoff switch for safety/theft
> prevention. But apparently it gave too much resistance
> 
> 3.    Same Longchamp. A/C didn't work. Was it the switch, or no coolant or
> faulty compressor? I was ready for hours of work. But it took ten minutes to
> solve. It was in fact the wire, where it connected from the wiring harness
> to the compressor, that connection was corroded, cleaned it and I could stay
> cool
> 
> 4.    And of course my friend's Ferrari 348 which began to run badly, and
> then not at all. After hours of him trying things, we ended up filling more
> gas in the tank despite the gauge didn't read empty, and it was fixed
> 
> 
> 
> Mikael
> 
> 
> 
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