Yet again, the car decided to be all prim and proper when I took it to the garage this morning, after yesterday’s overheat. This time the garage owner called a friend of his who’s more experienced with Fordco peculiarities, and the friend suggested the relay controlling the radiator fan and A/C might be bad; if it wasn’t that, it was either the power control module or the fan motor, both of which would be very expensive to fix. We decided to take a flyer on the problem being in the relay, since that required $20 worth of parts and no labor instead of more than $500 worth of parts and several hours’ labor.
An hour later, after I’d gone and run a couple of errands, I came back and they put in the relay they’d just got in from the parts house. Once that was done, the owner pried the old relay apart out of curiosity, and found evidence that the relay might really be the problem; we could see melted plastic around one socket contact that would prevent a good connection, and the relay contacts inside were discolored and pitted from arcing.
So I hope that fixes things, because L, T, and M are all going to Galveston tomorrow for a “fun muster” day at the Seaport Museum. It’d be a hell of a note if they were stuck by the side of the road on I-10 because the car broke down.
Robert Heinlein attacked the easy INWO deck with Las Vegas. Fnord.
