Date:         Tue, 27 May 2014 16:46:21 -0300
Reply-To:     Robert Fisher <garciasghostvw@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Robert Fisher <garciasghostvw@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Temporary but total power loss
Comments: To: mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net>
In-Reply-To:  <5384AC55.1000702@cox.net>
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Thanks, I'll check that wire. I was thinking it had to be something like
that (or at least related to the fuse block), but it was the "coming back
to life" part that struck me as odd. It's not like a loose wire would crawl
back onto its connection. I'm suspicious of the battery end. We'll see.


On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 12:16 PM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net> wrote:

> The clock does not get power through the ignition switch.
>
> There is a single red wire from the battery to the back of the fuse/relay
> panel. It plugs onto a large male spade on the back of the panel and powers
> nearly everything in the dash. I would look closely at both ends of that
> power wire.
>
> If the red wire is ok I would look at the battery post connections and the
> battery ground cable to chassis connection. Those also carry the starter
> motor cranking current so a problem there most often shows as a cranking
> speed problem.
>
> Mark
>
>
> Robert Fisher wrote:
>
>>
>> .......................
>>
>> I went to the shop yesterday to have them swap off the snow tires, and as
>> I
>> was taking a climbing left turn I lost all power- everything; lights,
>> wipers, radio, engine, the works. It just died. I was sitting there
>> thinking "ignition switch" (which is only about three years old) when I
>> noticed that the clock was dead as well. That kind of threw me- I don't
>> know how or if that clock circuit is tied into anything ignition/switch
>> related. I tried the key and got nothin'.
>>
>> I was just getting unbuckled to start poking through things when the
>> stereo
>> head started making a noise and the display came back on. I gave it a
>> second and tried the key again and it started right up....................
>>
>


--
Cya,
Robert

'87 2.1/Auto GL