Help Electrical Gremlin.....attack...!
Here is what I did, installed front mount i.c. replaced battery with 51R and installed a OEM cd player which did not work yet. Since the 7 had not started since last winter. With new battery, she starts right up, but:
When AC turn on, fans mod on or headlight on. The car dies... and now my ABS light is on. I have not take her out for a run since I don't wanna get stranded. My visual inspection could not tell any wire was cut or spliced... What could it be? Everything was working prior the mods in last winter. I checked all the fueses and pulled the harness out from the ECU. And all the plugs are pluged back in...what could it could? I put all these mods in and no where to go...:mad: |
well this sounds like a problem i had before my entire eletrical system failed, what happened was that my neg ground (the stock system was dying/dead). What happened in my case was the car could start fine and battery/alternator was good and all the fuses and relyas were good (god having 2 fd's is good for trouble shooting stuff like this, i would have probally spend over 2000 bucks buy all the different things which could have been wrong like, coils/ignitor, all the relays, ect). In anycase, when ever i hit my brakes (lights), headlights, anything eletrical, the car would die out. I just put a 2 gauge wire to ground the batter and other engine parts to the body and the problem dissapeared. (has been running like a champ for about a year now! woot)
BTW: Where is the cheapest place to get 2 gauge 0 node wire you ask... Home depot of course :D (I shit you not man!!! 2 gauge wire is 2 gauge wire if you buy it from the most expensive places or from homedepot) |
Thanks, I am gonna try that, I thought my 51R does not have enough juice at first.
Beside running ground from neg. terminal of battery to body. What are other good places to solve your problem. Ken |
What did you do that lead to the electrical problem. Since I have never had this issue from owning 2 fds. Although I have not add the ground but I am leaning toward pinched wire somewhere since I had to loosen the main wire harness under the front frame rail but can't see anything pinced. I also installed the cd player but it is not working yetsince I jammed it in. I think I am gonna try there first before yanking the bumper out again. Any other tips... beside the grounds.
Ken |
i never did anything, it jsut happened one day.
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That sounds like mine. I had no problem prior last winter. Then after all the mods put it. I almost shit my pants when that happens...all that works.
Well, I am gonna ground the heck out of it in the next couple days. Keeping my fingers crossed...Thanks man, I hope that is it. Ken |
Well, after talking to Dave at Kdrotary, I have found the screw up. Skunks you are right about the ground. I actually did not ground the two white plastic ground that used to sit on the bumper reenforcement which I switch to the hood latch and apparently not enough ground. Well, I am one happy camper now.
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