Group, Just wondering if the Delorean 02 sensor is available off the shelf at Napa or PepBoys. Mike C 2109 -----Original Message----- From: Walter Coe [mailto:Whalt@xxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 10:07 PM To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [DMCForum] Bah humbug! Santa brought me a melted fuse box... Travis, Fuse #7 has nothing to do with the cooling fans, so you have more electrical gremlins to sort out. I recommend wiring around the fuse block with a "pig tail" replacement fuse holder. Learn from other people's mistakes. I have seen plenty: 1) Be sure to use a heavy duty fuse holder that has 12 gauge wires. Do not accidentally get a light-duty one that uses 14 or 16 gauge wire. Those will melt. The best fuse holder for the job is made by Belden for NAPA. It is part # 784619 ATO/ATC Fuse holder heavy duty. Otherwise find one that is made to hold an ATC-30 fuse. If you use a cheapy fuse holder, you may need to slightly crush the female spade lug connectors to get a tight fit. 2) Avoid using an exterior grade fuse holder with the weather proof cap. The DeLorean is made to run too much current on many of the 20 amp fuses, so any socket may tend to get hot and melt. Weather poof caps tend to hold this heat in and make matters worse. 3) If the fuse block got hot enough to melt, then it most likely damaged the wires, too. Do not attach to the wire unless it is clean. It should be bright & shiny. It may be necessary to cut off a few inches before you find clean wire. If you feel that you may have to cut the wire too short then consider cleaning the burnt wire with acid or abrasives. 4) Do not trust saddle splice connectors, wire nuts or pre-insulated barrel crimp tubes to connect the replacement fuse holder. It is best to start with a non-insulated barrel crimp connector. Crimp it first, then tin with solder. It is bad practice to crimp a soldered wire. But if you do anyway, re-melt the solder after you crimp. 5) For a professional look, insulate the connections with heat shrink tubing. Electrical tape usually looks sloppy & amateurish. 6) Properly label each wire with electrician's numbered tape. A book of these is available at such places as Home Depot or Lowes. Use numbers that match the fuse number that the wires connect to. While you are messing with pig tail fuse holders, make up an extra with 1/4" male spade lug connectors and keep with the car. They come in real handy for bypassing/trouble-shooting a variety of problems such as bad otterstats, headlight switches, a/c fan relays, etc. John Hervey is the only guy I know who has come up with a fuse block replacement. If I were to go to that much trouble, I would divide up the load better to put fewer circuits on each fuse (which of course would require adding additional fuses). Walt To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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