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Subject:Re: STRANDED
From:JRodgers
Date:Tue, 1 Apr 2014 17:00:11 -0500

Holy Cow, TJ!! Sorry to hear of all this. Hope all are OK.

I'm not up on the automatics, so have no suggestions, but want to offer
encouragement. There are Volks on this list that can help - and will -
I'm sure.

Best of luck to  you!

John

On 4/1/2014 3:51 PM, TJ Hemrick wrote:
> All,
>    As if losing most of what we own from a house fire last Tuesday wasn't
> enough, now my transportation has come to a dead stop. 87 automatic, had
> some starting issues which (now) I see Kay have been some loose connections
> at the starter AND a broken wire (which was probably just a few strands of
> copper most of the past 2 weeks. Anyhow, I was idling, shifted to R AMD the
> engine went dead stop.  No power to 4-ways or anything else. Lights on dash
> DO come on but so does the green turn indicator light and it's on steady if
> the key is turned. Very weird.  Relay 21 on the panel cycles about every 10
> seconds with the ignition off and not at all with the key turned.  Any
> hidden fuses or fusible links I might be overlooking?  All other fuses look
> good but I'll check again.  Never been stuck this bad and no clues.
>