Electrical Problem?

[rocco2nr@hotmail.com (Joe Doty)]

I suspect there are three possible causes for this problem.

(1) Grounds
(2) Grounds
(3) (you guessed it) Grounds.

Check the engine-to-body ground strap located on the back of the intake
manifold, the starter-to-body ground, battery terminal to engine, and
add a ground from the alternator case to the negative battery terminal.
Your car will thank you.

Joe Doty
IT/Development
joe@lcnetwork.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of Julie Macfarlane
Sent: Friday, September 20, 2002 4:12 AM
To: ty@festf.org; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: Re: Electrical Problem?

Its them d**n aliens again. Messin' wit your head.
(Try the battery grounds)


>From: "Tyler P." <ty@festf.org>
>To: "List (E-mail)" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: Electrical Problem?  Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:54:31 -0700
>
>This has happened a couple times in the last few days.  I'm driving
down 
>the
>road with my lights and radio on.  All the sudden the car will have a 
>slight
>pause in it that feels much like when an automatic downshifts on the
>freeway.  My temperture light blinks about 3 times, the radio goes
silent
>for about half a second, and then everything just goes back to normal.
I
>thought that it was my battery cable cause my positive was getting
kinda
>corruded so I cleaned it but the problem started happening again today.
>
>Another strange thing is that this has tended to happen only in one
spot of
>town.  I remember hearing about a guy having problems with his Jaguar
and 
>it
>turned out that the car's computer was picking up some interferring
signal
>whenever he got to a certain part of the freeway and his car would just

>shut
>off.  The mechanic put a special shield around his computer and the
problem
>went away.  I didn't think that my 84 8valve has much in the way of
>computers in it but seeing as its always this one part of town, it
really
>makes me wonder.
>
>Any ideas???
>
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Julie Macfarlane
Web Developer
Albany NY
Charter Member "Scirocco Anonymous"
'85 8v-?? "Scarlett" (frankly, she doesn't give a d**n)
'81 16v-2Y "Animal"
ICQ: 7704980
http://216.153.141.3/scirocco/


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