[DeTomaso] The basic things

[Thomas Tornblom]

2012-02-28 16:06, Corey Price skrev:
> 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)

That happened for me, with my GT5, on our way to a meeting in southern 
Sweden in 2003. It was the main fusible link to the Mustang 5.0 EFI I 
had installed a year prior, and it was the weld between the copper wire 
and the fusible link that had come lose.

We jury-rigged the ignition and I used a flat blade fuse as my ignition 
key during the trip :)

I'm now using a proper fuse and have not had any problems with this 
since then.

Thomas

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