DeTomaso Mailing List: July 2001, Message #55

Hello Charlie, it's 4am here in CA, just plowing through a week's worth of
mail.  Looking at the extremely handy laminated wiring diagram I picked up
in LV, it appears to me that a green wire from the "#8" fuse supplies
voltage to the wiper motor under all circumstance, while an orange wire
supplies 12V from the switch.  Inside the wiper motor, I'd expect, and the
diagram seems to confirm, there is a set of breaker points which closes
whenever the wiper blades are out of the "park" position, these are
connected to that "always on" wire.

So, if you can get to the wiper motor, and find the green wire, and it has
12V, the problem I'd expect to find inside the motor.  If you don't find 12V
at the green wire, I'd try jumpering 12v to it and see if the wipers
suddenly park.

What is puzzling is that on most cars I've owned, the park feature only
works with the key on.  The wiring diagram seems to indicate the wipers will
park with the key off.  Can other readers confirm this?  Run the wipers,
turn the key off, do they still park on their own?

I enjoy your slogan......but you might ease up on the valve lift......is
there really any performance gain after .450 or even .400?

Guy D.

----- Original Message -----
From: Charlie Mccall <Charlie.Mccall@haworth.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <detomaso@realbig.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 12:52 AM
Subject: Windshield wiper "park"


> While things are a little quiet and people have a day off, I thought I'd
ask a question.
>  Obviously not my most pressing problem at the moment, but driving home
from Italy last
>  week it began to rain just a little bit. I turned on my windshield wipers
and noticed that for
>  whatever reason they no longer "self-park", but instead stop wherever
they are when I
>  turn the switch off.
>
> What causes this? Is this function controlled by the motor, by the switch,
by luck?
>
> I know, most of the California group is saying to themselves "Windshield
wipers?"
>
> Charlie McCall
> 1972 DeTomaso Pantera #3847 (for sale)
> 1985 DeTomaso Pantera GT5-S #9375
> "Raising Pantera Awareness across Europe"
> http://briefcase.yahoo.com/gt5s_1985
>
>