so Ive got as 90 Sc and its been a good car but starting to show it age. I fixed the camshaft sensor, reapplied thermal paste to the DIS and now its has this wierd issue with the charging system? The car works great but every now and then 2nd time today in 6 months. You be driving down the road and the radio will start to cut off power here and there, the car gradually acts like its running battery alone and runs totally 100% dead in a matter of 3-5 minutes.
The last time it did it I towed it home, replaced the battery connectors as the possitive didnt look 100%, the alernator checked out on the bench and the battery did also. Cars workewd great. Today same thing only I called the wrecker and walked the remaining 3 blocks to work. I decide its friday and Im too aggitated to work and walk back down to the car, figure why not try and see what it does. It starts and acts normal. When I left it it acted dead dead and now it starts runs drove it 30 minutes home and everythings ok so Its obviously something heating up causeing a high resistance or ???
If you guys know anything please feel free. I dont have the cash to randomly toss parts at it and most fixes have seemed expensive but been really cheap in the long run. The car usually sits for extended periods say a few weeks then gets used for a while and sits again. The battery is new, alternator was replaced a few months ago, same issue as this, I checked the little 6 inch ground strap from the battery to chassis but cannot find any others. There is a small ground wire that runs in the engine harness and has a connector to the left of the SC top and its bare and looks bad, what does this go to and can I reground it without tearing out the harness? Thanks for the help now back to work for me lets hope the car keeps ruinning. Mike
The last time it did it I towed it home, replaced the battery connectors as the possitive didnt look 100%, the alernator checked out on the bench and the battery did also. Cars workewd great. Today same thing only I called the wrecker and walked the remaining 3 blocks to work. I decide its friday and Im too aggitated to work and walk back down to the car, figure why not try and see what it does. It starts and acts normal. When I left it it acted dead dead and now it starts runs drove it 30 minutes home and everythings ok so Its obviously something heating up causeing a high resistance or ???
If you guys know anything please feel free. I dont have the cash to randomly toss parts at it and most fixes have seemed expensive but been really cheap in the long run. The car usually sits for extended periods say a few weeks then gets used for a while and sits again. The battery is new, alternator was replaced a few months ago, same issue as this, I checked the little 6 inch ground strap from the battery to chassis but cannot find any others. There is a small ground wire that runs in the engine harness and has a connector to the left of the SC top and its bare and looks bad, what does this go to and can I reground it without tearing out the harness? Thanks for the help now back to work for me lets hope the car keeps ruinning. Mike