No juice in my '59

["Dick Benjamin" <DickB@xxxxxxxxx>]

You are very lucky you didn't have a fire!  Those door panels are very
flammable.

Any time you see an unexplained twitch on the ammeter (it isn't a
"voltmeter", it is an ammeter - it reads the amperes flowing into something
in the car), you should IMMEDIATELY disconnect the battery before you lose
the whole darn car, GM alternator and all!

Dick Benjamin
----- Original Message -----
From: <Imperial59crown@xxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 7:57 PM
Subject: IML: No juice in my '59


> The last few times I went to start my '59 Imperial it didn't have enough
> juice to crank it over, so I had to jump start it with my other car. Today
it
> was completely dead, and I had to leave the jumper cables on about ten
> minutes till it finally got enough juice to start the engine. I then took
it
> over to Sears and had the battery tested, which was fine, and he tightened
up
> the belt on my unmentionable thingamajig. He felt I may have a problem
with
> the unmentionable part, so I took it over to my regular mechanic, who
found
> the whole charging system to be working just fine. After turning the car
off
> while still hooked up to the tester you could see an intermittent 20 amp
> surge, which he thought was my problem. I told him I suspected the rear
> passenger side window, since at times I could hear a clicking sound from
> there, and see the voltmeter jump. We then removed the door panel, which
> takes about three seconds in my car since it is practically falling off.
The
> master window switch was very hot on the prongs that went to the rear
window,
> and what we discovered, is since I do not have the bezel in place around
the
> window switches, they had sunken back into the door, and the rear switch
> being in the first position was slightly wedged under the door panel. Once
> the panel was off there was no problem. Who would have thought such a dumb
> little thing could cause such problems!
> Bill '59 Crown
>