[V8] Conductive grease ...

[dsaad at icehouse.net]

That really sucks Steve. Those welded connections are usually wrapped inside 
the wire looms. You will have to tear the looms out and un-tape them.

On the bright side, they are probably all safe from water damage. That is as 
permenant a connection as you can make.
I would focus on the connectors in the fuse/relay panel area. (you know - the 
area of the car with the most connections per square inch - which was under 
water)

FYI (and not a pretty one) I once had a relay that failed because the armature 
spring was rusted through. I hope the water line was below all those 
relays/control units.

Dave


Quoting "Buchholz, Steven" <Steven.Buchholz at kla-tencor.com>:

> ... and on this topic ... I don't remember whether or not I posted on
> this
> earlier, but when I was contemplating the fact that I was going to have
> to
> do without #2 for a couple weeks while it was in the body shop I decided
> I
> needed to spend some time on #344.  The car has been relegated to the
> driveway until such time as I could work on it to get the emissions down
> so
> that it would pass emissions.  We had some heavy storms here lately, and
> I
> realized that there was some water in the front passenger footwell ...
> pulled the carpet ... and found that there's probably an inch (probably
> more) of standing water!  A bit of investigation and I found that the
> windshield was basically disconnected from the body of the car!  I got
> the
> windshield issue resolved satisfactorily (and met a very nice German
> glass
> tech who was working for Safelite out here ... it is always good to have
> work done by someone who actually appreciates your car!).  Now I'm
> having to
> deal with the effects of the oxidation of electrical connections ...
> like
> the fact that the climate control display goes blank when the headlights
> are
> switched on!  I found one major culprit ... the 75A (!) load reduction
> relay
> in position 5 on the fuse box ... this has gotten things into a position
> where I have no qualms about driving the car.  There are enough other
> things
> that aren't working well that I'm thinking I'm going to need to open up
> the
> relay area and clean up each item down in the lower two rows ...
> probably
> more than that too.  
> 
> I'm putting together my plan of attack based upon the functions which
> are
> and are not working and using the wiring diagram ... but I see a lot of
> comments there about "welded" grounding connections in the dashboard
> wiring
> harness.  In large part the issues can be explained by high impedance
> ground
> connections ... so I expect to get a lot of mileage from dealing with
> them.
> Does anyone have experience with locating these "welded" connections to
> be
> able to tell me where I'm going to have to look for them?
> 
> Thanks!
> Steve B
> San Jose, Kaleefohnia (USA)
> ==========
> On another subject ... one near and dear to Dave S' heart ... there was
> also
> an article on electrically conductive sealing greases ... here's a link
> for
> that one:
> 
> 	
> http://www.machinedesign.com/ASP/viewSelectedArticle.asp?strArticleId=56604&
> strSite=MDSite&Screen=CURRENTISSUE
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