Re: STRANGE & SERIOUS PROBLEM!

[Gerry R <reichelt@telepath.com>]

At 01:57 AM 11/10/97 -0600, Brandon Colvin wrote:
>I need help diagnosing a strange and serious problem with my '87 16v.
>
>Here is the lowdown on what has happened.
>Friday night on way to the club the oil light came on.  Of course I 
>freaked out and immedietly shut the car off.  Since it was late the 
>car spent the night in a bad part of town. 
>Saturday morning I played it safe and gambeled it was just the prssure
>sensor.  After alot of swearing I finally found a place that carried the 
>right Oil pressure sensor and changed it.  It seemed ok on the way home
>and on my way to work Saturday around noon.  When I got off work Sat. 
>night I headed home. (Here is where the strange stuff starts).   The oil
light
>came on again.  This time when the oil light came on the battery & o2 Sensor 
>light flashed on too.  They when out and the Oil light stayed on.  At the
same
>time the dash lights and raido lights got really bright.  This spell only
>lasted 
>about 5-10 seconds.  Convinced it was still getting oil I kept driving.
About
>2 mins later it did it again.  Same deal.  (battery light, o2 sensor light,
>dash/raido 
>lights) and this time I noticed my headlights were bright as day.  And this
>spell 
>only lasted @ 5 seconds.  By this time I was at my GF's house.  The car sat
>for 
>about 2 hours and on the way to my house (another 5 miles) the car acted
>normal.
>
>Will somebody please explain to me what could cause this series of events.
>And I hope it is something as simple as a place to kick the car to get it
>to work 
>right.  Because this comes the same week that I got a 700$ estimate on a
>tranny
>rebuild. 
>Please email me directly, I probably will not catch it on the digest.
>Thanks
>mailto:bcolvin@hiwaay.net
>
>Brandon Colvin
>mailto:bcolvin@hiwaay.net
>http://fly.hiwaay.net/~bcolvin/
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>  I had a similar problem lately, turned out to be a combination of a bad
alternator and a couple of poor grounds.
Gerry 
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