My 95 Trans Am, strange electrical happenings (Page 2/2)
nitroheadz28 SEP 25, 09:18 PM
Sweet, that sounds like fun. Ok since I'm going to have to lift the car to do this, is there anything else I can try down there to troubleshoot?

Thanks a lot for your help Jake.
turboguy327 SEP 25, 11:06 PM
Just a heads up. Optimas are junk after sittting for any length of time without being charged. I had one sit for 3 weeks and it was dead. Got replace under warranty and 3 weeks killed the new one too. Returned it and got a regular battery and all was good.
nitroheadz28 SEP 26, 12:07 AM
People seem to have a love/hate relationship with them. I bought the car with the red top in it, personally I'd take a regular Die hard or whatnot over it.

I don't have the receipt for it, already tried calling everywhere (including optima) asking if its possible to exchange since its a pretty new batt- but no go.

I really hope I can get to the bottom of this soon, with my daily driver throwing a rod I have no wheels

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turboguy327 SEP 26, 02:39 AM
I would check the ignition switch to make sure thats ok. Antitheft on the car?? Any fuses blown?? Fusable links?? How do the cables look?? Both power and ground. Make sure the engine spins freely too. Cool have a leaky fuel injector hydro lock the engine while it sat. Put it in gear and rock the car back and forth and watch the belt.
nitroheadz28 SEP 26, 01:25 PM
Its not flooded, the engine turns over when its pushed in 6th. No anti theft. No fuses blown in the engine compartment, but I can't get access to the ones in the cabin since the door is seized as well as the panel under the dash. Even if I cut through the panel it'd be hard to get in there.

If it were the ignition switch, wouldn't the car just not do anything at the turn of the key? I found a hose that had become disconnected from the valve cover to the TB, apart from that everything looks fine.

I'll get it up in the air later and try jumping the starter to see what happens, I'm charging up my battery now.
nitroheadz28 SEP 26, 03:51 PM
I got the old bastage to run, turns out it was a crappy connector on the positive terminal... I charged up the battery again, hooked it up and had my dad hook up jumper cables to his van and boost it.

It was doing all sorts of weird things this time, 1 minute it wouldn't have any power- then he started wiggling every connection around there and kaboom we have ignition. So I'll go ahead and replace that. The bad thing is that the engine idles high now at 1300, it ran perfectly fine last time. I guess I have to start groping around everywhere trying to find a leak.

Thank you all for your help!