Date:         Sat, 21 Oct 2000 11:50:50 -0700
Reply-To:     Dave Bayer <daveb@CP.NET>
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From:         Dave Bayer <daveb@CP.NET>
Subject:      Re: [Syncro] Help!  Igintion Won't shut off!
Comments: To: Steve Schwenk <sxs@concentric.net>
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Steve Schwenk wrote:
>
> We're just heading out to the vanagoon gathering and my
> ignition will not shut off.  Turn the key and t just
> keeps running.  I did remove and replace the coil
> before this happened.  What could I have done?  If I
> unhook the wire from the Batt to the alternator, it
> shuts off!

        First, which end of the battery - alternator
wire are you unhooking? At the battery, starter
or at the alternator?

        If it is either of the first two, it sounds like
the black wire (current track 15) in the black distro box
in the forward driver side portion of your engine compartment
might be some how contacting the high current post in said box.
That post has power to it from the wire that runs to the
battery/starter/alternator. Hrm, then there is the possibility
that your iginition switch is not working properly, but
hrm, how to easily test that without burning out your
wiring if it is the former issue.

        If it shuts off when you remove the connection
at the alternator (the big post connection on the alternator
right?), then I need to go dig my Bentley out my Bentley
from the pile of stuff that it's under.

        If you just replaced the coil, there shouldn't
be anyway that current track 30 is hitting track 15
around the coil area... Though you also must have been
playing around the black relay box and that also has
both track 15 and 30 in it...  Basicly for the engine
to keep running, you need to be getting both current to
the digifant control unit and to the coil. Both of these
are powered/actuated from current track 15 (which runs
directly from one leg of 15 off the ignition switch back
to the black distro box in the engine compartment when it
makes a connection and splits to - I believe the digifant
relay, the coil, and the 5 amp fuse for the o2 sensor
heater.

dave