Re: [AMC-list] That was wierd !!!

[tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

Bad cables or connections or other intermittents. IF the battery was bad and
woiuldn't hold a charge, then it would not have imporoved upon reinstall.

If your battery cables are those clamp types they're usually no good after a
year or two.



On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 19:30, Armand Eshleman <aje1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Saturday Afternoon I went to Spirit Lake, IA for a cruise in. People were
> swarming around the white Javelin.
> It drew more attention than I have eve seen it draw before. I don't think
> there was more than a half an hour total
> time for a four hour stay that some one wasn't looking at the car. There
> was
> maybe 100 to 150 cars there.
> About 8:30 I noticed, and so did everyone else, that it was beginning to
> cloud up in the Western sky.
> I got very unlucky and ran through a flippin monsoon rain storm on th way
> home.
> The Javelin reacted very unusual to this event. Back in the 70s I had
> driven
> the car
> through a few monsoons that you couldn't really even see the road, and
> Saturday nights storm
> wasn't that bad, but anyway, the engine began to stumble and it almost
> acted
> like the rear wheels
> were hydro-planing, but then I realized the engine was shutting down
> momentarily and then re-lighting
> itself before it completely died. It almost flet like the clutch was wet
> and
> slipping, and then would dry up again and grab.
> But it was an electric glitch. As I got closer to home I noticed the
> headlights were dimming and I then suddenly realized
> why the wipers moved so slow, no electric power from the
> battery.........but
> the alternator should have been working, the belt stayed on the whole time,
> the alternator is a light duty one, I think 35 or 40 amps. I just barely
> got
> the car home, it began to run real crappy. Apparently with low voltage and
> an MSD Pro Billet ready to run Distributor you get real weak spark events.
> The alternator light never came on. I got home and pulled the battery out
> and dropped in a different one. The engine ran fine then.........the
> battery
> that was in the car, an optima about five years old, seemed like it didn't
> want to accept a charge when I hooked up a ten amp charger to it. It pulled
> a steady 8 to 10 amps for a while and didn't pull less for a long time. I
> thought at first the battery had dropped a cell or something. So I backed
> the car out of the shop and washed all the road grime off and put it away
> for the evening. This morning I put the optima battery back in the car and
> it started the car just fine, after having failed to turn the engine over
> last night after I got the car home. I put the charger back on and let it
> go
> for a while. The alternator light would come on when I turned the key to
> on,
> but when the engine fired up, the alternator light would go out. That's
> normal. I drove the car about 170 miles today to New Ulm and back and never
> experienced a glitch of any kind. Any one got any theories? electrics got
> wet?? wet short? drained battery? when I got it home the compartment heat
> dried everything up and it was OK then?????
> Do you think the optima battery has been damaged??
> What do you guys think?
> Inquisitive minds want to know...................
>
> Thanks,
>
> Armand
>
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All of your arguments are invalid.
Enjoy your unstable system.
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