So I was driving my car around one Sunday morning. Came back home to shower real quick and then go to church. I come out and go to leave and my car suddenly has no power! It won't start. so I stomp back inside pissed. Well, I didn't touch it until tomorow thinking it was going to take some time to fix and didn't want to leave it unfixed and Wednesday's are my only free days (until 4). so I go to charge my battery with the charger to begin diagnosing. Well, I lift up the rubber insulator on the positive pole of the battery and the stupid thing it off the terminal!! I must have not tightened it down all the way and it popped off. Well, it was an easy fix, but made me feel really stupid. If I would have just popped the hood and looked, I would have been ok. Well, anyone else have any stories like this?

 

it's even more scary if that happens and causes it to short out against the firewall while you're driving. That happened to me twice (happened once, and then again when I was on my way home to fix it). Always nice to lose power steering and power braking while you're in the middle of a turn (at the time I had no battery tie down, which was the cause of the whole thing for me)

 

nope... none here. lol

 

wtf???????

 

uhhhhh.........

 

Was trying to tension my power steering pump and forgot to undo the locknut and snapped the bolt....
i probably have more, just can't remember them right now.

 

haha
i try to start my car and im out of gas

 

trust my dad to jump start it. so he left the other car pluged in for liek 3 or 4 minutes and friend my electrical system. aong with my battery cables.

 

what, are you sure he didn't do somethign wrong, it shouldn't matter how long he had it connected....It's just draining your power longer, shouldn't fry anyhting.

 

The whoel trust my dad. thing. my dad = 51years of age (still stuckon muscle cars.) me 16 years old (import tuner,) so yeah he grounded the damn thign to teh chasis not teh battery.

 

So, what's your point? Follow the cable from the negative battery terminal....where does it go? That's right,...the chassis. Your dad did nothing wrong.

 

Then I dunno but he pluged them in, and it fried the friggen thing. did I mention he had the truck on?

 

i got a question, i have a 92 twin turbo & the check engine light comes on at decelerattion, tap the gas & it goes out, what gives? the o2 sensors have been replaced and it passed emissions

 

am i stupid?

 

Sounds like a loose wire/connection.

 

i thoght of that but it coincides whith the opperation of the throttle