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16V electrical gurus needed...



On 1:49:35 am 08/27/05 "Jim Ruffi" <sciroccos@earthlink.net> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> > From: scirocco-l-bounces+sciroccos=earthlink.net@scirocco.org
> > [mailto:scirocco-l-bounces+sciroccos=earthlink.net@scirocco.org]On
> > Behalf Of C Boyko
> > Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 7:07 PM
> > To: Roger concha
> > Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> > Subject: Re: 16V electrical gurus needed...
> >
> >
> > How about battery negative to chassis ( a likely corrosion point,
> > as it's under the airbox), and more importeant, from the frome to
> > the tranny. That wire was entirely missing on mine.
> >
>
>
> I second the battery to chassis lead.  My car was hard/impossible to
> start, with no ignition till you *stopped* cranking (only one spark).
>
> A shiny new cable corrected a problem that the PO tried for months to
> rememdy.
> Takes 20 minutes to change....just do it.
>
> Jim
>

And you can easily check it, just take your normal type jumper cable, hiik
one end to the battery, and one to the tranny in some clean spot, and see
if it improves things. Takes like two seconds, and you can carry the
jumpers till you fix it if that's the problem.
Ctahy