1994 GMC Safari

My van recently started dying when coming to a stop. I replaced plugs, wires, cap and rotor when I found a burned up spark plug wire. Things appeared fine for awhile until the van died while driving at 50mph. This was something new. Another new thing is that it wouldn't immediately restart.

It has done this a few times now. The most recent was last week when I started it and it immediately died. I worked on it for a couple hours and could never get the van to even crank. I recharged the battery even though the charger indicated it was over 50% charged. I tried jumping. I couldn't get it to crank at all. The strange part to me is that it headlights and dome lights still worked, but the flashers wouldn't. The part about the flashers baffles me and I think it is an important part to solving this puzzle.

Any ideas?

Tod Kozeluh wrote:
> My van recently started dying when coming to a stop. I replaced
> plugs, wires, cap and rotor when I found a burned up spark plug wire.
> Things appeared fine for awhile until the van died while driving at
> 50mph. This was something new. Another new thing is that it wouldn't
> immediately restart.
>
> It has done this a few times now. The most recent was last week when
> I started it and it immediately died. I worked on it for a couple
> hours and could never get the van to even crank. I recharged the
> battery even though the charger indicated it was over 50% charged. I
> tried jumping. I couldn't get it to crank at all. The strange part to
> me is that it headlights and dome lights still worked, but the
> flashers wouldn't. The part about the flashers baffles me and I think
> it is an important part to solving this puzzle.
>
> Any ideas?

Take a close look at the ground straps from the engine to the chassis.
Also take a look at the bulkhead connector for the main harness. There
were a few years when those liked to melt.

--
Steve W.