DHC6twinotter
10-07-2007, 05:50 PM
Anybody have any really strange mechanical problem on your vehicle? Something that absolutely makes no sense. I'll start with something that happend to me a while back:
This was all back when I was going to community college. Everytime I would drive home, there was this one particular intersection that I enjoyed taking a fast right turn on. I have no clue why it was so fun, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Anyways, after doing this day in and day out, my truck starting shutting off whenever I took this turn. I mean, everything would shut down; the radio, lights, engine, power steering, EVERYTHING. As soon as I rolled through the remainder of the curve and straightened it back out, it would come back to life--almost like nothing happened. It was the strangest thing I had ever seen a vehicle do, yet it only happened only at this interesection. It was like an EMP was set off under my truck.
After weeks of trying to figure out what was wrong, I finally found the culprit. I noticed that one of my battery cables had the insulation rubbed completely off. It was so bad, that even some of the wire strands themselves had frayed. Upon farther investigation, I found that there was no tie down holding my battery down, just some bungee cords. Come to find out, everytime I took the corner fast, my battery would slide over, and the battery cable would rub against the power steering pulley. After this was going on for a bit, enough of the cable insulation was rubbed off to allow the cable strands to come in direct contact with the pulley. This would then ground out the electrical system and shut down the whole truck. Needless to say, I quickly fixed the wire, and it now works much better. I bought a real battery tie down too. :D
Anybody have any strange occurances like this?
This was all back when I was going to community college. Everytime I would drive home, there was this one particular intersection that I enjoyed taking a fast right turn on. I have no clue why it was so fun, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. Anyways, after doing this day in and day out, my truck starting shutting off whenever I took this turn. I mean, everything would shut down; the radio, lights, engine, power steering, EVERYTHING. As soon as I rolled through the remainder of the curve and straightened it back out, it would come back to life--almost like nothing happened. It was the strangest thing I had ever seen a vehicle do, yet it only happened only at this interesection. It was like an EMP was set off under my truck.
After weeks of trying to figure out what was wrong, I finally found the culprit. I noticed that one of my battery cables had the insulation rubbed completely off. It was so bad, that even some of the wire strands themselves had frayed. Upon farther investigation, I found that there was no tie down holding my battery down, just some bungee cords. Come to find out, everytime I took the corner fast, my battery would slide over, and the battery cable would rub against the power steering pulley. After this was going on for a bit, enough of the cable insulation was rubbed off to allow the cable strands to come in direct contact with the pulley. This would then ground out the electrical system and shut down the whole truck. Needless to say, I quickly fixed the wire, and it now works much better. I bought a real battery tie down too. :D
Anybody have any strange occurances like this?