> Subject: Aerostar only starts when the Headlights are on and I am pulling on HiBeams?? What did you mean when you said you 'touched a probe' to one of the wires? EG, was this a high impedance V-O-M probe or a wire connected to the earthy side? EG, what was the result, a bright flash and vapourised copper in your face? It sounds to me as if you are missing an earth return in the ignition circuit. When you turn the lamps on, that's making enough of a return path to get sparks working. Check that you have a solid ground connection everywhere on the ignition that there needs to be one. Clive PS I didn't mean I was going to scrap my 89 XL just for a rack problem! I'd have scrapped it 3 times over if that was the case . . . I am still looking for a Villager, though. Nowadays I mainly drive the 96 Maxima, it's too much fun...

Aha, you just are looking for something -and- wanting to fix your rack. Looking at my wife's poor 95 XLT I'd say there's not a snowball's chance in hell I can sell you that part - right side of it makes an L thanks to being hit so hard that the wheel cambers at 45 degrees top in. Looked close at it today and that SOB bent the F