Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:30:17 GMT From: James Sweet <jamessweetnospamail.com> Subject: Re: expected current draw when car is off
Dave Hinz wrote: > On 25 Oct 2005 19:51:06 -0700, Mike Deskevich <mikedeskevichnospaml.com> wrote: > >>Captain Freedom wrote: >> >>>James Sweet wrote: >> >>>In my 87 900 it was the seat belt retractors that were drawing current >>>when the car was parked. >>> >> >>ah, never thought of that. and now that i think of it, they've been >>acting up lately. thanks for the hint! > > > Then you've solved it. They don't go all the way to the back, so the > limit switch never says "shut off", so they keep drawing current. The > fuses are, I think, under the back seat behind the driver seat. My '88 > did that, I ended up getting them into the right position, pulling the > fuses, and having an extra clip to fasten every time I got in the car. > > Dave Hinz > While I was still looking for suitable replacement belts I did spend some time screwing around with the silly automatic ones and got them working ok for a while. What I did was take the whole assembly apart, wash the old lube off the cable and then grease it up with new stuff. I also at one point had to fix the wire to one of the end position microswitches, but the lube is the main problem, it dries up and the whole mechanism gets sluggish and jams up. Probably not worth the time to muck with though, I like Dave's idea better, disable them while you look for a suitable junker to get the parts from.
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