DeTomaso Mailing List: April 1997, Message #104
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If you do not hear the relay click when the switch is pressed, then it is possible that the switch itself is bad. If the relay clicks when the switch is pressed, then do you hear the electric motor run on the lights. If yoiu do then the gears are stripped. If you do not hear the motor run, then check either the switches on the gear actuator or the motor. Using a meter, check the motor leads with the switch on. Should have 12 volts. If not, then check teh switch and wiring. If you have 12 volts at the motor, then the moror is bad. The black knob will manually lift the lights, but it has to be turned like 50 to 100 turns to raise them. It is enough to make you want to change your moror quickly. Dave. >Hi everyone--this forum has been incredibly useful. I think you all >solve a lot of Pantera problems for all of the rest of us--especially >problems that we sort of grin and bear with and put out of mind. Then we >browse these postings and there is the answer to a long standing Pantera >problem. > >Headlights: mine simply quit working- I can see that the lights are in >fact on--they just don't come up at all any more. The knurled black knob >near the drivers side front doesn't seem to do anything- maybe I'm too >weak to turn it-I'm 5'11" 230 lbs but I can't turn the knob! > >I bought a new relay from Gary Hall and installed it--no change. > >Where should I start to look? Headlight motor? wiring? Fuses all appear >to be OK and the lights are on. Any ideas fellow Pantera owners? > > >P.S. I found the "fans" dialogue especially helpful. In addition >someone noted that pure antifreeze had less ability than the proper >antifreeze-water mix- how correct he was!! I seemed to have very low >oil pressure in my wife's 91 Mustang GT 5.0 convert when the note >appeared. I had simply added antifreeze when the "low coolant" idiot >light appeared---oil pressure stayed low. Last time I added water only- >overfow tank was close to empty--this cured the low oil pressure >problem! It is now back where it should be! So thanks to whoever noted >this- I'm fairly certain it was on Shawn's wgate page. > >to all: my thanks-- especially Shawn Ingate and Mike Drew--great help >and great answers. > >I have a teaching colleague who is a Vette fan--I printed out some of >the letters to Nobbie--especially "Buy a Vette and see the back end of a >lot of Panteras"!! Loved it- still waiting for his answer! > >Regards > >Kirk Bailey >71 Red #1907 >Toronto, Canada > > David Doddek pantera@pobox.com www.pobox.com/~pantera 217-422-3722 69 EFI Fairlane, 89 T-bird SC, 74 Twin turbo NOS EFI Pantera (I like to go fast)