So i was delivering pizza and i turned onto a road. My car lost power and my lights went dim, and my gas pedal stopped working. I pulled over to a parking lot and cut my car off. I checked everything out and couldn't find any obvious problems. I cut my car back on and it started but idoled low. I mashed on the gas and it stuck and tached out. I cut my car off. I noticed there was an engine block to body ground that had corroded and came disconnected. I had my car towed to advance, its sitting there now. Help me if you can, thanks.

 

battery & ground connection seems to be obvious. clean, sand, and re connect. While your at it, if you didn't know, your grounds are super important all over. Inspect all of them, and take some sand paper to the connection on the chassis & on the wire end. this will help insure a good ground connection.

 

ok cool thanks man, this is buggin me super bad, i have no idea how to trouble shoot things with this car, my throttle seems stuck, could that affect my gas, and do you think anything is fryed big time

 

if its just the grounds nothing should be fryed at all.

 

hey. this would probably help him and it would help me too. where would you put grounds on these cars to add extra comfort and where are all of the major grounds located?

 

major grounds are your battery ground, trany ground (from negative terminal) and spark plug ground, (on drivers side mount)

take all three off, take some sand paper and sand the **** out of the connector & the screw spot, clean down to bare metal, and clamp down good.

if any corrosion is on the wires either clean with battery cleaner or replace whole wire is what i'd do.

also, to get to the trany ground you'll have to crawl underneath car. This one is often overlooked and very important. you'll need a 10mm wrench or socket, take it off, clean and put back on.

 

Right on... also some new batt. terminals would help and new grounding wires. The stock ones can get real nasty. I bought one of the grounding kits off ebay for $15 and just used the wires for new grounds, works great for me.

 

I fixed my ground and it did the same. So i disconnected my throttle cable, and noticed it was stuck, i followed it back to the firewall. I noticed that it was in between the two wires that go into my brake fluid reservoir. Then I noticed the wired were a little gummy. Some how im assuming (probably the bad ground) the wires had heated up my throttle cable and gummed it up and got it stuck in place once it cooled. Now im going to replace the throttle cable (which is being a bitch) if you've ever taken one out. I hope this is it, it seems that it is so hopefully ill be back on the road tomorrow.