"Jason Bleazard" <dml@bleazard.net> wrote:
> On Wed, April 30, 2008 1:39 pm, Don Rey said:
>>
>> If the problem were a bad connection, I would expect to
>> get either low voltage or no voltage... and maybe intermittant
>> triggered by some jostling... but not full voltage one moment, and
>> suddenly zero voltage triggered only by the ignition switch.
[...]
> I have a battery disconnect switch and have to re-tighten it every couple of
> months, otherwise I get all kinds of weird stuff. I've had what you're
> talking about, then re-tightened that switch and had no problems. I'm not
> sure why everything goes dead, there must be some sort of failsafe protection
> built in to the system to shut it down before it melts.
Yep, I have had the same thing happen with those battery disconnect
switches too; if they get a little loose or something they don't
transmit much current.
Interestingly, I had almost the same exact experience last summer
with my '70 Dart. Interior light worked fine, turn key on, idiot
lights all come on and the buzzer and everything, turn to start, and
nothing, and now nothing electrical is working. I went inside to get
my multimeter, the electrics were now working again, but the same
thing happened when I turned the key to start. I moved the battery
cables around a bit and a heard a kinda sparky sound coming from the
positive cable. I took the terminal apart, cleaned up the end of the
wire, put it back together and the car fired right up. Unfortunately,
something during that process must have burned a wire or fried
something because ever since, one of my marker lights isn't working
and I have no dash illumination, that fuse keeps blowing. Tracking
down electrical problems is always fun (not) but that's on my to-do
list as I continue to attempt to get it out of storage. (Its kinda
fighting me though.) A couple of gaskets in the carb went out on me
over the winter, stupid thing sprayed something like half a gallon of
gas down my motor before I noticed the leak, and also the idle mixture
screws are dead, so I need to rebuild that carb before I can get the
Dart out this year. Good thing I have all sorts of spare time to work
on this stuff. Wait, I forgot, I have the opposite of that... ;-)
Hmmm, that kinda morphed from an arguably related story which might
possibly have a small chance of helping you out in some way to some
sort of general selfish rant. Sorry about that! I'll just quit now
and sign off before it gets any worse. :-)
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