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james_s:

--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on November 27, 2019, 12:17:18 pm ---P.S.   Someone here talked about converting their Auto to Manual....  An interesting problem that I have
seen twice, is the failure to be able to start the car for the 1st time afterwards !!   |O
An 'Automatic' requires a circuit through a switch, to ensure it is in 'Park' before being able to start....
Both times, they had forgotten to trace/bridge-out that part of the circuit, after changing to manual   8)

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I've converted three different cars from auto to manual gearbox. I don't know what other makes did but Volvo used a shorting plug with a wire loop that plugs into the harness where the wire from the park/neutral safety switch in the gear selector unit would plug in. It's easy enough to grab that plug from the donor car or just snip the one off the slushbox gear selector and join the wires in a loop. I've had a lot of people sound amazed that such a conversion could be done but it was fairly straightforward. Both versions of the car are made on the same assembly lines and share as much in common as possible. Converting is just a matter of removing all of the auto-specific components and installing the manual parts. All of the required mounting holes are there.

nctnico:

--- Quote from: SparkyFX on November 27, 2019, 03:38:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: nctnico on November 27, 2019, 11:27:35 am ---BTW: I did have a weird electric problem in my Toyota. If I switched off the rear window wiper at a specific point it would blow the fuse. I ended up with installing a big fat PTC fuse in series with the rear wiper motor to fix that.
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Most rear wipers have a hardwired end position switch within their enclosure to open the circuit once triggered, maybe the other side of a changeover contact that is supposed to be open has contact to chassis or the override to start the wiper is affected (active ground?). Most likely the wiring harness between roof and tailgate broke and has a short circuit... Often these harnesses can be obtained as inplace fix (cut out old, crimp in new).

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That is a possibility but I never investigated further. Later on I found out that the car was hit at the rear somewhere in the past. The paint & filler job on the rear door started to crumble because the rigidity was compromised and the door flexed a little bit. I fixed that by filling the inner part of the rear door with PUR foam (and redo the filler & paint job on the outside).

G7PSK:

--- Quote from: james_s on November 27, 2019, 06:31:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: vk6zgo on November 27, 2019, 02:55:31 am ---The salt thing reminds me of living in Southampton UK & seeing cars which would have pretty much been in their "adolescent" years in Australia, pretty much rusted out.
They were believers in salting the roads, as well as adding "chippings"(small pieces of hard rock, similar to those used in roadbase).
A better recipe for underbody rust couldn't be found!

It's not as if the weather was that savage----it only snowed twice in the 10 months or so I was there.

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I went to Chicago for work last year and it was really noticeable how there are NO cars older than about 10 years old on the roads there and many that are only about 8 years old already have rusted out areas in the fenders. Several years ago I worked on a car for a friend of a friend who had moved here from Michigan and while it looked ok on the surface, the subframe had rusted out so badly that the entire steering rack broke free and turning the wheel caused the rack to slide back and forth instead of aiming the front wheels. It was miraculous that it held together until she turned into a parking lot that happened to be near my house instead of breaking somewhere during the ~1800 mile drive. I've heard people say that modern cars don't rust but they absolutely do, not as bad as they did up through the 70s but it still happens. It's just not as visible because there's so much plastic and paint has improved but they rot out underneath and from the inside out.

Salt is horrible, nasty stuff. It absolutely destroys cars and it rusts out infrastructure like bridges and light poles. That was another thing I saw in Chicago, light poles with nasty rusted out bases, some of which had been patched up with welded in repairs. Even out here on the rare occasions it snows I hear people moaning that they need to salt the roads and I don't get it, they must have NO idea how destructive it is. Driving in snow with appropriate tires is no big deal, salt makes everything a slushy mess with patches of ice and causes untold billions of dollars in damage. Salt has no business being put on roads anywhere.

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Salt on the roads was something Harold Wilso introduced when he was prime minister in the 60's here in the UK he got together with the car manufacturers and came up with that, at one time cars were made with "production steel" which was made by rolling sheet steel with sheets of lead like pastry, the reason was it makes for better deep drawing that gave nice rounded shapes in one piece to make matters worse it was often stored outside where it absorbed water so the cars rotted from the inside out. In the 70's I went to quite a few car factories where I saw stocks of rusty sheet waiting to be pressed into panels.

GlennSprigg:

--- Quote from: G7PSK on November 27, 2019, 05:14:42 pm ---My first car was a 1962 Ford Anglia 105E, absolute rust heap that had been botched up with newspaper and bondo/filler when I bought in the early 70's for £15-00 Sold it a year later for £50-00 having fixed the sills with concrete and wire mesh.

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That's funny!! You do what you had to do back then !!  :D
Your car reminded me of the 'Police' car, used in the "Heartbeat" TV series, set in the 60's in the Yorkshire
region in the UK. Imagine that car in the USA today, trying to get someone to pull over !!  :scared:

james_s:

--- Quote from: GlennSprigg on November 28, 2019, 03:40:26 am ---That's funny!! You do what you had to do back then !!  :D
Your car reminded me of the 'Police' car, used in the "Heartbeat" TV series, set in the 60's in the Yorkshire
region in the UK. Imagine that car in the USA today, trying to get someone to pull over !!  :scared:

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I'd bet that most people would pull over, I mean police on motorcycles pull people over all the time. Even if you can lose the car you can't outrun the radio.

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