Re: The Interrmittent 56 Patrician

Posted by HH56 On 2012/8/3 20:54:43

When you say ALL and that includes the horn, then it almost has to be a battery or battery cable connection problem.

The battery connects to solenoid and a single wire off that same connection feeds the horn relay directly and branches via a splice to ammeter where other items are directly fed.

While it is conceivable the ammeter might have a loose connection or internal problem possibly causing the issue, the horn should not be affected. I would check the ammeter connections because loose connections are a known issue on other years but doesn't really fit the symptom. If connections are OK, I would strongly suspect something in the battery or cable which your working with the cable moves and reconnects.

If it were only ign switch related items, that intermittent power problem is a classic failing switch which gets jarred and makes contact again.

The ballast resistor is fed off the ign switch and only feeds the coil. It's failure should not affect any of the directly connected items.