Odd discovery...

[86 5.0L]

EDIT: SOLVED! Molex ground pin had wiggled out of the connector

First off, heres my pump setup

http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/1961/img1238ay.jpg
http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/4673/img1239ed.jpg

as you can see the pump isnt straight and would hit the side panel, but I figured the vibrations wouldnt be too bad at 20%. As I was closing up the case, I glanced at my temps and they were pegged at 100*C(again lol) I quicky remove the side panel thinking I pulled off a power cable. Nope, then the pump quickly came back to life. puzzled I touched the pump to the side panel and it shorted out! temps climbed to 100*C once again, removing the panel my pump came to life again :S.

Is there a short in my case? is that normal?

 

[Tsumi]

Do you have any foam or rubber stuff? I would put that around the pump and make sure nothing is touching it.

 

[Thor]

its probably not a short, you said the pump was touching the side panel... im willing to bet when you put the side panel on, it is getting disconnected. if it where a short, it should trip the short protection on your PSU (and with the lights off, you would see it spark).

 

[86 5.0L]

well, Im sure glad my pump didnt short out permanently :S

kudos to the MCP35x build quality lol