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Mail From: (email redacted) (Ed Mulligan)

I wonder if it is like the power seat cable on my '92 LX. Here's a hint -
occasional flickers of the headlights and radio over bumps, loss of power
windows for long periods of time, and a few no-start conditions. I thought
it was the clutch/starter interlock, since if I would really stand on the
clutch it would start. I also tore the door panel off and went over the
whole window wiring system. No luck. Then I heard the Bzzzzt Bzzzzzt noise
we electrical engineers know so well. . .The car should not have taken up
arc welding as a hobby! It turns our that the clips wrapped into the power
seat harness were put in the wrong spots at the factory, and the wiring was
cut by the power up/down seat mechanism. A +12V wire (black insulation,
what else?) was shorting out to the seat track. It would start when I stood
on the clutch because I was lifting my butt off the seat slightly. Removing
the seat, wrapping and re-routing the wiring has cured the pboblems for
almost a year now. Doing all this on a rainy aftrenoon in Aug. in Georgia
certainly gets strange looks from the neighbors.

For what it's worth.
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Ed & Laura Mulligan
'92 5.0 LX "I love the sound of Flowmasters in the morning!"
(email redacted)
". . . only the technoculturally impaired would look to IBM for anything
resembling hip."
- Steve Steinke, LAN Magazine
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