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Re: Dead electrics

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Subject: Re: Dead electrics
From: "Greg Rowe" <growe58@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 11:03:02 -0500
I've had this exact same thing happen with a non-LBC.
Turned out to be a bad clamp on the negative battery
terminal.  If I tapped on it or twisted it, it would
restore the lights, but the minute I tried the starter
(the heaviest electrical load), it would go out with a
pop.

Good luck!

Greg Rowe


>From: "Nolan Penney" <npenney@mde.state.md.us>
>Reply-To: "Nolan Penney" <npenney@mde.state.md.us>
>To: <spitfires@autox.team.net>, <j.carruthers@rave.ac.uk>
>Subject: Re: Dead electrics
>Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:06:43 -0500
>
>You're looking for an open in the main ground or hot.
>
>I'd start across the positive and negative posts of the battery itself,
>and then work each leg individually.  It should take you no more then
>2-3 minutes to find it this way.
>
> >>> "James Carruthers" <j.carruthers@rave.ac.uk> 01/24/03 08:20AM >>>
>What happened... put the key in, engine turned over a few times, no
>go,
>but that is usual... second time lucky... turned over again - whilst
>the
>key was still turned - some sort of click/snap/bang noise happens
>somewhere from the front right of the engine bay - (I *dont* think it
>was
>the solenoid poping out) and then nothing.
>


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