Look along the cable from your control panel to the firewall. There is a
hot wire touching the cable along that route. Pat
-----Original Message-----
From: RWM <RWM@rwmann.com>
To: Alex Avery <aavery@rica.net>; datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
<datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, May 03, 2001 7:16 AM
Subject: Re: Weird electrical short burned throttle cable
>Sounds like wire bundle chafing, under the dash.
>
>If it's white-red to throttle or choke cable, it's a dead short.
>
>- Bob Mann, '69 2000 Solex
>
>Alex Avery wrote:
>>
>> Ok, this may be the weirdest electrical problem I've run across.
>>
>> I'm a Z guy, but my pops has a '69 2000. Yesterday evening, he was out
>> "enjoying the ride" when his throttle pedal started getting "soft" and
the
>> engine died down to idle.
>>
>> He pulled over onto the grass by the side of the road and when he got
out,
>> he noticed smoke emerging from around the sides of the hood. He popped
the
>> hood and saw what he thought were "wires" on fire! He put them out with
>> his hankerchief and walked home and gave me a call. I drove over to tow
>> the little bulldog (that's what I call it) home.
>>
>> When I looked at the "wires" he told me about, I realized they weren't
>> wires at all--they were his throttle cable and one of the choke cables.
>> The main throttle cable's plastic sheathing melted right off along the
>> whole length of the metal cable (from the linkage on the intake back to
the
>> pivot arm on the firewall). I looks like the throttle cable is a
>> replacement, as there is no metal sheathing on this cable as there is on
>> the choke cables.
>>
>> On the choke cable, it's metal with a plastic cover over that. The
plastic
>> has boiled along the whole length of cable and this cable is now bonded
to
>> the other non-melted choke cable.
>>
>> So, what is happening? My hunch is that there is a huge short running
>> through these cables and this is causing them to heat up, etc. But where
>> is the juice coming from? Has this happened to anyone else?
>>
>> Help, I'm terrible with electrical problems and my father relies on me to
>> keep his little beast going.
>> Alex Avery
>> Churchville, VA
>
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