Electrical Issues

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by TKlauber

I went out to the car and cranked it up to answer patrickt on his post. I cranked the car up and revved it up and hit the light switch - I saw the instrument lights come on and the headlights might have flashed on an instant and then it went dead and now will not crank so I think I fried the module in the distributor.

Tom, if doing that resulted in the car no longer cranking (meaning that when you turn the key you hear nothing, or at the most a little "click" from the starter solenoid, then the culprit was almost certainly a bad connection from a POS wire or corroded ground. The bad connection will be either at the battery posts themselves, at the starter solenoid, or at the block or head where your black ground wire leads to from the negative battery terminal. You must remove the wires and actually inspect them because the wires could be corroded and broken just inside the insulation and you won't really see it.