Ok so to start the story line off. My wife and I go to pick up my 94 lx from the trans shop....... turns out my trans is crap now and have to get a new one. Anyhoo we drove our 93 SC to get my other car. Everything was fine. So we leave and my wife drives the SC and I drive the LX. Not even 500yds down the road I catch up to my wife and she's on the side of the road. She says "the car sounded like the bottom of the engine was tearing up so I cut if off to try and avoid too much damage". Well I try and start it back to see if I could hear the noise. I turned the key and no start, the car acted as if the battery was dying/dead. Meaning that when the key was off everything appeared normal, but the second you turned the key into the run/on position the door ding got weak, and the lights got weak, and the (guessing) fuel pump shut off switch in truck was making a racket. So I get my jumper cables out and try to jump it....................no difference. So I tow it home (not with my other bird.....jsuk lol)
As I get it home I try to start again.....still looks like a battery/short problem.
I tinker with the key and get it to turn w/o the dimming but won't start, so I jump it at the selenoid and get it to fire up. Runs but undriveable because of the having to hold the key inplace while shifting gears would be a miraculous experience to say the least lol. So I search on the forums for a fix assuming already that it is the lock cylinder and or the ignition switch. That's the same answer I kept finding, so this am I go and get new switch and lock cylinder. Replaced the old ones..................same thing happens. But only now you can't get the selenoid to jump it to start, you can turn the motor over but still no power to have the fp on and the ignition on.
help me please....I'm no rookie....lol
The car is a 93 factory auto converted to standard.
As I get it home I try to start again.....still looks like a battery/short problem.
I tinker with the key and get it to turn w/o the dimming but won't start, so I jump it at the selenoid and get it to fire up. Runs but undriveable because of the having to hold the key inplace while shifting gears would be a miraculous experience to say the least lol. So I search on the forums for a fix assuming already that it is the lock cylinder and or the ignition switch. That's the same answer I kept finding, so this am I go and get new switch and lock cylinder. Replaced the old ones..................same thing happens. But only now you can't get the selenoid to jump it to start, you can turn the motor over but still no power to have the fp on and the ignition on.
help me please....I'm no rookie....lol
The car is a 93 factory auto converted to standard.