

| Subject: | Electrical Woes |
| From: | Harmon F Seaver |
| Date: | Thu, 5 Oct 1995 15:02:18 -0500 (CDT) |
I was just redoing the heating system on my '73, and found that once the engine starts, the warm air blower no longer runs. It runs fine when you turn the switch on and have the ignition switch turned to "on" (so the warninglights are on) but by slowly turning it (the key) further, it cuts out the blower just about the time the starter is going to be be triggered. Now, this same car has always (since I've had it) had a starting malady in that won't fire while the starter is cranking, but you have to crank a little, then just let off the key, and it fires up. Until now, I had assumed that the problem was that the starter was going bad, thus drawing too much current, and not leaving enough for the coil to give a good spark. Now I don't know. Could this be faulty ignition switch? -- Harmon Seaver hseaver@csd.uwm.edu hseaver@nyx.cs.du.edu seaverh@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu We have found the Fountain of Youth in Asia! ============================================================================== Microsoft Network, or any service owned in full or in part by Microsoft, is prohibited from redistributing this work in any form, in whole or in part. Copyright, Harmon F. Seaver, 1995. License to distribute this post is available to Microsoft for US$1,000 per instance, or equivalent local currency. Posting without permission constitutes an agreement to these terms. Please send notices of violation to hseaver@csd.uwm.edu and postmaster@microsoft.com. ==============================================================================
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