Electrical Gremlins - Back with a vengeance

["jchapelhow" <chapelhow@xxxx>]

All.

Just when I thought I had progressed to being able to concentrate on 
cosmetic type problems?


Accelerator cable snapped. Mine broke at the pedal end, and despite 
the best efforts of Dave Howarth's calming phone voice and advice I 
couldn't do anything but have the car towed home. As a quick aside 
here it is worth noting that putting a lowered D onto a car 
transporter is not as easy it would be for `stock' cars. The vehicle 
had a large ramp with winch, but if my car had been winched from the 
side of the motorway the metal cable would have damaged the front 
spoiler. Fortunately I could still move the car at idle to get part 
way up the ramp, from there the winch could be used. The cable was 
replaced with the new stainless steel version, supplied in by Dave.


My electrical problems are back. Once again the dashboard gauges move 
with different electrical loads, and only a limited number of systems 
seem to want to work simultaneously. New twists on my problem include 
that now the LHS door lights do not work when the door is opened. 
They do however work as soon as the ignition key is inserted. At the 
same time the indicators do not work when other electrical loads are 
applied (lights for example). Since these symptoms start before the 
ignition key is turned the alternator is in the clear ?  
All of the my previous `usual suspects' have been checked;
main relays are brand new
all the fuses are new (contacts are clean as far as I can tell) 
the flasher unit panel is still in place ;-) 
grounding the wires next to the left wheel to the battery makes no 
difference

I am therefore assuming there must be a broken/loose wire somewhere 
behind the binnacle. I managed to avoid removing it before. The 
DMCNEWS article says that I should just be able to remove 6 nuts, 
does anyone have practical experience of this they want to share, or 
better yet pictures?

If there were anything more accessible to check first that would be 
good too!


John Chapelhow