I am an ase certified tech, elec is my main thing. Sounds to me like the battery voltage is just getting too low and the car is dying... like when your alternator quits chaging. If you had a short at the alternator charge wire to ground, the main 175 amp fuse would blow, or there would be smoke and fire. if you had any kind of short at the battery, you would see smoke and there would be fire.... if there was a short in the column fuses would blow, or there would be smoke and fire... see a pattern develope? Short = blown fuses or smoke and fire... no blown fuses or smoke and fire = no short.
If you had a constant drain the car would be dead if it sat for a day or 2.
If its not just a bad alternator (which I think it is) I am willing to bet you have bad connections from all your crappy cables... bad connections = heat, and when heat goes up, resistance goes up, and that means all the energy is used to make the heat at the bad connections instead of power the car.
I would almost garuntee if you replace the batery cables and the main charge wire from the alternator to the underhood fuse block your problem will be fixed.
Oh yeah, also check all the grounds!!! a bad body ground will also cause all your woes you describe.
Last edited by crappywheelhop; 09/04/05 06:20 PM.
