The Crusty Cuda: Whole lotta Shakin' (N96) Goin' on!

[A12pilot]

Attention all Users: Attention all Users:

A breakthrough has been discovered! Sitting Reserve in Miami with absolutely nothing to do except listen to the Corona-Clueless scrounge for TP, I decided to take a road trip up to The Villages to see my folks. Driving up with the dash and engine harness diagrams floating through my head from hours of staring at them, I called M&H and chatted with Joe (I think....I know it wasn’t Tom). So explaining to him my entire situation from start to finish, we methodically went through every situation that it “could” be. I’d present a scenario and he would debunk it with the diagrams. He’d present a solution and I’d describe why that isn’t possible with the wiring diagram in my head and the symptoms my car had, to which he’d agree. This went back and forth with some extremely intelligent banter the likes of which haven’t been heard since the Carter Administration. This hour long conversation puzzled him, puzzled me, puzzled the government phone tap guy that was listening on the other end, and ultimately made us both think we came up with the issue with concurrence from the phone tap guy who said “that’s it!” in a very soft and muffled voice

I have to use the voltmeter and test one wire when I get home which will confirm our assumptions. We’re confident that this will be it!!! Which means out comes the dash harness and back to M&H it goes to be reworked. There’s one, to possibly two, wires in the harness that are spliced incorrectly which is sending power where it doesn’t need to go and grounding out the system intermittently. We touched on it briefly in the thread and Darrell gets the trophy with his mention of the “key in buzzer” option. My car doesn’t have that option installed but the connection is in the harness. The wire that powers that option is the culprit along with the tach lead wire, and oil pressure sending unit lead, and coil wire. Yes, it is THAT complicated!!! I’ll confirm Saturday when I get back and have a better explanation, but I think the eureka moment has come!!!

Cheers
Dave

[Postsedan]

Well done Captain

Enjoy your parents.

Be safe.

Dan

[Billohio]

That would make some sense.
Did you take 27 north thru Sebring?

[njsteve]

Drat! Foiled Again!

[A12pilot]

Holy crap! Is that Dick Dastardly!?!?! Where’s Muttley?? Ah..good times...good times....Stop that pigeon, NOW!!

Yes Steve-O, I didn’t cave to your pressure. Although I was close, but I don’t like being defeated by a mechanical entity I know I’m smarter than! I think...

Bill, straight up the Turnpike from just North of Miami. Straight shot!

More over the weekend..

Cheers
Dave

[L78M22Rag]

Hope it works! If not, I’ll take that frustrating, [used to be] crusty ‘cuda off your hands.

Fingers crossed ;-)

[Lee Stewart]

[njsteve]

The interesting thing is that I had an issue with an M&H harness too, on the Trans Am. Most companies would tell you to pound sand but M&H does have great customer support and the guys there actually seem to enjoy it when they run into a weird "stump the stars" gremlin issue. Like I said before, they sent me a brand-new, free harness two years after I purchased the one with "issues".

[A12pilot]

“I won? Wow, a speech? Oh geezeum, who to thank? Let me start by thanking the man upstairs. The big cheese. The head Kahuna. You know who I’m talkin’ bout! The Bob-a-Boni! It was his constant emails and calls saying!’You better get that friggin’ car running, or you’ll be banned from not only my show but the entire state of Chicago! Gnome’ sayin, flyboy?’ And let’s see, there’s thanking my supporting fans in New Jersey that somehow resulted in me feeling like Gilligan on that episode with the Voodoo tribesman. I accept this award, and as a parting statement of inspiration, please remember something encouraging someone else said to you at some point in your life. Thank you!”

Yep, these guys at M&H are really good. No complaints on the level of their support.

Cheers
Dave

[L78M22Rag]

Congrats!!! Burnout video coming real soon?