[BaadAssGremlins] Re: 258 question

["Robert" <baddassgremlin@xxxxxxx>]

Charlie, (everyone). Being a mechanic for over 30 years, I can not 
stress enough about the number one problem when it comes to 
electrical systems, and that is the ground. Please, thoroughly 
concentrate on the grounding system and locate everywhere that you 
can find that may be grounded and CLEAN/REDO the GROUND conection. A 
major percentage of electrical problems is only a bad/weak ground 
connection, and we always look for the the problem to be everywhere 
else but the ground. I can almost say that 90 plus percent of all the 
electrical problems I have diagnosed/fixed over the years has been 
attributed to a bad ground. Hope this helps, Bob in MN.

--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, GrublinX@... wrote:
>
>  
>  
> Terry, 
> I have a short somewhere. The oil light is never on full bright, 
but  
> flickers or stays on about half bright. 
> I dread taking the dashboard display out, but that's where this is 
headed.  I 
> like the idea of a light and a gauge. Once I get this figured out, 
I'll  
> install a t-fitting at the motor and run the gauge and the sending 
unit for the  
> light. You are right, the wife will never look at the gauge. The 
damn motor 
> will  burn up and even then she'd wonder why. My sister-in-law 
burned up my 
> brothers  Dodge Intrepid driving it home with the oil light on. She 
figured it 
> would be OK  to drive home becasue it was only 4 miles!! Seized it 
up good, she 
> did!
>  
> In a message dated 4/29/2007 8:06:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
> twa1950@... writes:
> 
> If that light was on and you really had an oil pressure problem you 
would  
> have known it in a hurry. Sounds like it is OK to me. I would think 
it would  go 
> up to 20 to 25 when you are driving it. Even if it didn't I 
wouldn't get to  
> excited about it. Sounds to me like somewhere on the wire it has 
bare spot and 
>  is touching metal and causing a ground. Might be just as easy to 
hook a 
> gauge  and forget the light. Of course if she is like my wife she 
would never look 
> at  gauge she thought that they were just decorations on my Cougar. 
I will 
> say  Ford did have one good idea if something is wrong it has a red 
light that  
> comes on and tells you to look at your gauges.
> Terry
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  
> 
> Charlie "Cool Factor X" 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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