Check your schematics and make sure that all of the diodes are in good condition and are actually installed. The way this car is wired up, without the diodes in place you can feed power to a load from multiple sources. Scott Mueller 002981 RNDOLA -----Original Message----- From: Phil Priestley [mailto:phil@xxxx] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 11:07 AM To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [DML] Electrical Mess *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* I am in the process of fixing the prior owners electrical mess and have ran into a few problems. In a recent post I mentioned the electric mess inside the doors (Yards of extra wiring, 3 relays per door, flasher modules ). One mod to the car was wiring that ran from the alternator all the way up to the cooling fans, an otterstat installed in the radiator, funky fan wiring, and another wire that ran all the way back to a relay mounted on the left intake manifold , then wired over to the AC compressor. Wiring ran from there to a toggle switch inside the car to (i guess) manually turn on the fans. the otterstat in the coolant line was disconnected. I have removed all this mess and put things back to the way they should be but now the fans run constantly, from the moment you turn the key to the ignition position. Its almost like jumping the wires at the ottersat. Question: When an otterstat fails, does it fail to a dead short , if not where else should I look in the circuit to solve this? I also have got the wiring for the door switches mostly fixed now, (another real mess ) but the courtesy lights only go on when you open the passengers door. What have I missed? with all the snipped connections I could well have missed something. Phil Priestley Vin #2105 To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/