Weird electrical problem

[ubik@austin.rr.com (L. M. Lloyd)]

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Sorry I haven't been very active on the list lately. I had a producer
pull out of my current film, so now I am having to shoulder the
entire burden myself, leaving me no money and almost no time, so the
car hasn't been touched in a while.

Anyway, on to my problem. On my '88 16v, I have a very odd problem.
My auxiliary electrical systems are being very flaky. Now the
headlights, turn signals, and all the necessary electronics work
fine, but all the secondary systems are malfunctioning in some sort
of odd connected way. It is a little complicated, so please bear with
me on this. For example, if I just start the car then my power
windows, windshield wipers, hazard lights and AC blower don't work at
all, except the blower will work only on the highest setting.
However, the squirter for the rear window will work, but not the
wiper, and the power locks always work. If, on the other hand, I pull
the intermittent wiper relay out of the relay panel before starting
the car, then the power windows and AC blower work fine unless the
headlights are on. If the headlights are on and the wiper relay is
removed, then the AC blower will not work on  anything but the
highest setting, and the power windows will only work if the blower
is off. Of course the wipers won't work without the wiper relay, but
the hazards never work no matter what.

Now going through the wiring diagram, I can't find anything but
perhaps the load reduction relay that could be effecting all these
different systems. I have checked all my fuses and they are all fine,
and I just finished putting in a new alternator, so I know that isn't
the problem. The battery is also fairly new, and seems to have a good
charge, so I don't think that is the problem. All of these problems
started showing up at the same time a couple of weeks ago, and at
first the windshield wipers were just flaky, but now they just don't
work at all.

Anyone have any ideas?







The goal is to overcome the deliberate nature of the process. 

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