(I don't know Roland, relating the looks of your Snake to a Coors beer can
(of all things!) would seem to be the lowest form of insult one could inflict.
Good thing it was you who said it! ;^)
> Now to the important (to me, anyway) part- Recently I've been
> experiencing an intermittent problem when I drive the car.
>
> On the electrical side, [...] The symtoms occurred just as I wriggled
> one of the leads to the [starting] solenoid, then cleared up. Try as I
> may, no amount of fiddling with these wires caused a re-occurrence. In
> fact, I couldn't get the symtoms to repeat at all after that. I even
> drove around for 15-20 minutes. Nada.
!Flash! Your Ford motor has a ballast resistor in series with the coil hot
lead that is "shorted out" when cranking the engine to compensate for the
reduced battery voltage during cranking. I don't recall the exact connections
(it hasn`t been since high school that I worked on a Ford sedan), but you may
have (or had!) a flakey connection to your coil somewhere in the vicinity of
the starting solenoid(?)
Pat Vilbrandt Fluke Corporation Everett, Washington USA
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