16V electrical gurus needed...

[sciroccos at earthlink.net (Jim Ruffi)]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: C Boyko [mailto:roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca]
>Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 6:36 AM
>To: Jim Ruffi
>Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org; roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca;
>rogercv1@gmail.com
>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).
>>
>>
>
>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

The jumpers didn't help my problem, but I put the new lead on and it solved
the problem anyway.