[FC] weird electrical problem

[Gary Swiatowy]

Got another battery you could try in it?
I would try that first, but it is most likely a really bad ground or 
possibly a positive wire shorting something else out.
What is the last thing you worked on?

Gary Swiatowy
Quality Representative
Summit Lubricants Inc.
4080 Pearl Street
Batavia NY 14021
Phone: (585) 344-4301
Fax:      (585) 344-4302
e-mail: garyswiatowy at summitlubricants.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Wild8bill at aol.com>
To: <corvanatics at corvair.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 8:08 PM
Subject: [FC] weird electrical problem


> I've been away for a couple weeks, and the rampside decided to stall out 
> on
> my girlfriend while I was gone. she got a ride home, went to get it the 
> next
> day  and it started and made it most of the way home (stalling at some 
> lights
> until  refusing to start about a block from home). I just got done 
> checking it
> out,  found that it was electrical problem. I tried to start it, dash 
> lights
> came on,  but turned motor over 3-4 revolutions and the power goes out. I
> checked and  cleaned all the connections, and had power to dash again. Any 
> large
> drain  (headlights, starter) causes it to lose power again, with 
> disconnecting
> and  reconnecting the battery solving the problem, until I try to start it
> again.  Using my 12 volt tester, I found that the chassis actually becomes
> POSITIVE when  the power cuts out. disconnecting and reconnecting battery 
> ground
> cable reverses  it so chassis is NEG. I don't know why it does this; bad 
> battery?
> The weird  thing; the battery ground cable, that goes to the engine block 
> but
> still attached to the NEG battery terminal, will be  POS, and touching the
> tester directly to the NEG terminal will make the tester  light go on! 
> Before I
> go buy a bunch of parts I don't need; does anyone know if  I have a bad
> battery, bad cables, poor grounding, or some kind of gremlin in the 
> wiring harness?
> (bypass already done on rear harness  connector)
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