Reply to "Fuse Block Replacement"

Steve,

The tire could have been a lot worse a) we were only 3 miles from arriving into Tonopah b) the local tire guy just happened to be in his shop on a Sunday c) he had a used 245/45 17 tire out the back d) He was willing to give it to me! In the end we lost just over an hour and I'm out one new Michelin Pilot SX. I think it must have just had a slow puncture or lost air and started to run on the wall (we were tanking along at a good rate!) The first I noticed was a severe wander passing another car as the wall came away from the tread! My thanks goes out to the guys (especially Jim & Dennis) for hanging around and helping out, another fine example of the Pantera community sticking by a fellow member in need. It also reinforces the need for me to get a rear tub and make room to carry a spare!!

On the wiring note I did the fan relay mod along with the changeover to the Flex-a-lite fans. The painless wiring blocks look a good idea as an add-on as you say and they are available locally at Summit, thanks. I already have Mike Drew's document on my hard drive and was planning to rewire/relay the headlights along with the quad conversion. I think the safest is to basically run as much as possible through relays and I certainly wouldn't recommend installing the Kirk Evans headlights without them. I'm thinking to rewire it so I have both low & high beam on during high beam operation.

Julian