Date:         Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:09:37 -0500
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Load Reduction Relay/X-Contact Info
Comments: To: Jay L Snyder <Jay.L.Snyder@USA.DUPONT.COM>
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At 03:40 PM 2/27/2002, Jay L Snyder wrote:
>Looking for a basic primer on the Load Reduction Relay and the X-contact
>ignition switch.  How does they act when the go bad?  Do they become
>intermittant or do they just fail?

Yes.

>  I know the relay kills high load
>circuits when the ignition switch tells the starter to crank.  How could
>you tell if the ignition switch was going or if is the relay?

If it kills the headlights then it's the switch.  If not, then the relay

>   Just
>curious.  The Bentley is less clear for some reason for the '85 model year.
>86+ have nice pictures of the fuse box and relays--'85 Nothin'.  It is not
>even clear to me what circuits are controlled by the  X-contact.

X-terminal on ign drives headlights, 97.63 track 41, also (track 40
connecting to 97.66 track 90) the coil for the relay which feeds everything
coming down from track 97.  Rear heater blower doesn't seem to be on
diagram, but I bet it's on the same circuit -- it is in later versions.

david


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