Well i was driving home tonight from work when my cd player shuts off on me,cofused i payed no atention, then my lights start to dim i get onto campus and the car dies..I try to restart the car and nothing, initally i assume that the altinator has gone bad. so i walk back to get help to puch the car and when i get back to the car about 10 min later i try to start it.. it starts and runs fine and i drive it to a parking spot. The weird thing is that while idling in the spot i turn on the lights and watch the tack the needle drops but the engine still seems to idle fine, i'm very confused eny and all help would be much apreciated, i'm suposed to drive to NJ this weekend for the honda meet....also it was raning tonight

 

Bad ground??? Water got in your electrical wiring and shorted it out??? When is this meet in New Jersey...I wouldn't mind going.

 

thats what i was thinking..i was looking at the ground on the altinator but it dident seem wet, but it was very coroded....the meet is this saturday at English town..should be good

 

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Corrosion is a very poor conductor of electricity. Look for it on all your wiring - engine grounds, battery ground, battery (+), wherever...

 

i'm gonna check them out, i recently did the swap so maybe a ground has a loose conection..eny other segjestions?, i apreciate the help

 

Well, i pulled my altinator and had it tested it's fine...i checked all my grounds and everything elts i could possible think of and everything seems fine

 

Someone once told me that a Tach measures Revs according to the Disributor.. But I could be way off on that..

 

Yeah - but the ignition module & the ECU are in there somewhere, too.

I didn't know at first that you had a swap...
I guess I'd be looking for flaky connections anywhere in the wiring harness. If the ECU loses its tachometer signal then it quits firing the fuel injectors, right? There's too many connections for anybody to guess over the web... Just a lot of tedious searching.

 

It could also be your alternator though. i have recently dealt with this problem, seems that the diodes in the altenator gone bad and sometimes put out 12v which is barely enough to run the car without the headlights on, but not charge the battery. just get it checked at autozone for free. then go on from there.

 

Well it turned out that my cd player was actualy shorting out internaly and draining my entire electrical system!!, i came to this concusion after i realized that the car only died wile the cd player was turned on

 

Check out your alternator anyway. It has to be a heluva big short to overwhelm the alternator. If it really was that big of a short you'd be looking for a fire extinguisher. Unless the alternator is barely OK to begin with.

 

i did i pulled the altinator and had it tested..it checked out prety close to perfect...after i removed the cd player i havent had eny type of trouble