Electrical Mess

[Phil Priestley <phil@xxxx>]

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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