speace,

yes, I have had to deal with the wiring harness issues - replaced the engine harness 4 months back due to the cheap insulation on it. It also looks like the insulation on the single lead on the dropping resistor has fallen apart.

Arthur Dalton,

It does click when I jump it but I didn't get any power on the resistor. I did locate the fuse for that (on the shock tower - I really need to get a decent wiring diagram for this car) and it was blown. I replaced the fuse and now get 12V on the dropping resistor. Since the insulation was falling apart I thought I would replace some of the wiring and broke the dropping resistor terminal trying to get it apart. So now it looks like a new dropping resistor and some wiring replacement is in order. One thought I had was to removing the dropping resistor completely to aid in cooling (read that in another thread somewhere) but now sure I am ready to do that. I think I will just replace it and see hot it runs in the 90+ degree weather here. Do you see any potential problems in bypassing the dropping resistor?

Thanks again,
Bob