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Stalling on 99 SC2 -57k miles; electric issues?
I've had my 99 SC2 for about 2 years now, and up until now, it's been
problem free, a really great car. However, I've been having this problem where on occasion, a few days a week, it will randomly stall, or when parked won't start up again, and I lose all power- when it does start up again the radio and clock presets are all lost. Today, it kept stalling when ever I press the break- it usually recovered before the engine died completely, but this is a huge problem. Any ideas on what it might be- electric issues, battery, other...? Any ideas are greatly appreciated!!!! |
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> I've had my 99 SC2 for about 2 years now, and up until now, it's been
> problem free, a really great car. > However, I've been having this problem where on occasion, a few days a > week, it will randomly stall, or when parked won't start up again, and I > lose all power- when it does start up again the radio and clock presets > are all lost. > Today, it kept stalling when ever I press the break- it usually recovered > before the engine died completely, but this is a huge problem. > Any ideas on what it might be- electric issues, battery, other...? > Any ideas are greatly appreciated!!!! It would be a reasonable assumption that *something* is interrupting power. If it's happening when you press the brake, it could very likely be related to motion. Because the engine is stalling even while running, it doesn't sound like you're just losing a connection to the battery, even the current from the alternator is (for some reason) not making it where it should. This sounds suspiciously close to something that happened to me with an old blazer - but the circumstances I'm going to describe aren't very likely, so take it with a grain of salt. With this old Blazer, every once in a while the combination of turning and a bump would immediately cause the engine to die and all power to be lost for just a brief moment. It would almost always start back up, but occasionally I'd have to shake the blazer a little (literally) before it would work. Inspection revealed that the cable from the posive battery terminal to the starter would - when jostled just right - come in contact with one of the accessory pullies. After that happend enough times, the insulation wore through, and when just the right bump would make it contact the edge of the pully, it would short the positive battery terminal to ground for the brief moment. Any more than a brief moment probably would have caused some SEVERE fireworks under the hood! To fix it, I just wound electrical tape around the damaged insulation, re-routed the cable, and never had another problem. Again, that's a pretty unlikely set of circumstances, but the symptoms you describe sound similar - something could be temporarily shorting out your electrical system (TRULY shorting it, connecting positive to negative). steve |
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You may be right- I know sometime when it won't start, I'll jingle the
transmition around and sometimes that does the trick. thanks! |
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Makes no sound at all- and I had a good look under the hood today-
corrasion everywhere! you think that might be it? |
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