Need help with some older Fisher RS727 Recievers... I have schematics

OK here's the deal. I have the service manuals with the schematics for these units. I have five Fisher RS727 amps and I need to bypass the overload protection in these amps. They are older now and some times they shut down while watching my action movies, and they constantly shut down while listening to my music. I believe that age is having an effect here because this problem has been slowly creeping up over the last few years with various sets of speakers (all 8 ohm).

I have soldered jumpers across the contacts on the relays for the power supply and the speaker outputs the other day. The amps still power up as they should and everything seems to be normal. I have not powered up the unit with a load connected yet. I plan on doing this on the upcoming weekend for a test.

My question is directed to anyone who is familiar with these Fisher RS727's. I am aware of the "Ground Pin 17 Reset Issue" and believe that the Pin 17 thingy is totally not related to this subject. I want to know if shorting the contacts on these power relays will eliminate my tripping issue when under load? Or is there something else I am overlooking? The speakers I have connected are of correct impedance so that is not the issue. I am also not concerned with this bypass because I will have fuses inline with my speakers to protect both speakers and amps.

I figured it out. There is a wire from the main faceplate that needs clipped and tied to ground with a 3.2K resistor.

However, I took a different approach. I removed all the circuit boards other than the main board and the pre-amp board,

Then I did a few other things;
1) Disconnected the communication cable to the face plate from the main board.
2) Soldered jumpers accross the contacts on the main power relay and speaker output relays.
3) Soldered jumpers across pins 4to5, 7to8, 13to14, and 16to17, on IC105 for full volume output at all times.
4) With the face plate communications severed, I had to jump the two switching input IC's on the pre-amp board in order to get the signal from the "Video 1" RCA jacks to the volume control IC and on to the OP amp. This meant jumping pin 4 on IC103 to pin 20 on IC104, and pin 27 on IC103 to pin 11 on IC104 (going from memory so I will edit later if wrong).

These modifications make the amp power up when plugged in so I made a box that had a relay in it and a power strip for the output so I could turn the five modified recievers on an off using my pre-amp's switched outlet. The amps when powered up make a loud "Thump" in the speakers. This will be fixed using a timer relay and a set of relays to break the connection to the speakers for ten seconds while the amps stabelize when powered up.

When it is all said and done you might ask why I went through all this effort. Well the cost of new amps was $1300.00... I did all these mods for around $13.00 to amps I already owned. Plus these amps are very powerfull and sound awesome. I just couldn't bring myself to spend the $1300.00 and possibly end up disappointed.