Thread: Have you guys every encounted this problem in the classics?

So here's the scoop! My uncle has a 94 classic se-r, and he recently encountered a problem. He asked me if I knew what might be the problem when he is driving normally cruising down the street when all of a sudden the car shuts off. When you try to crank it over, he said that it seems like its shorting out or something, like when your battery is bad and it sparks, but when it does spark, it resets everything on the car(meaning all the electricals: lights, cd deck, and whatever else there is resets). Then it keeps doing that not letting the engine crank over. He also said it has happened to him twice already. The first time it started back up in a few seconds. The second time it took him about 20 minutes before he got it running again. What could be the problem? Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Check your connections. Clean your terminals. And most importantly check the ground from the chassis to the thermastat housing.

I had this happen to me a couple times. First time was because my terminals kept corroding, namely the positive terminal. Take the terminal and clean it especially the wire itself. The second time was due to my chassis to block ground completely breaking off.

Hope this helps.

Lance

With that ^^^^ in mind......

It probably would not hurt to buy one of the Grounding Kits that are available from Active Tuning. A handful of big, beefy grounds that go in various designated spots around the engine bay.

The OEM factory grounds are miniscule and wimpy in comparison. After fifteen years (or so) they have a tendency to fail. One of my OEM grounds was found to be dead (broken) when I installed the Grounding Kit.

*Maybe* that would help?

check your alternator connectios

sounds like a short on the batt side of the main harness connections i would say make sure everyhting is plugged in and connected