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Subject:Re: Temporary but total power loss
From:mark drillock
Date:Tue, 27 May 2014 08:16:37 -0700

The clock does not get power through the ignition switch.

There is a single red wire from the battery to the back of the
fuse/relay panel. It plugs onto a large male spade on the back of the
panel and powers nearly everything in the dash. I would look closely at
both ends of that power wire.

If the red wire is ok I would look at the battery post connections and
the battery ground cable to chassis connection. Those also carry the
starter motor cranking current so a problem there most often shows as a
cranking speed problem.

Mark

Robert Fisher wrote:
>
> .......................
> I went to the shop yesterday to have them swap off the snow tires, and as I
> was taking a climbing left turn I lost all power- everything; lights,
> wipers, radio, engine, the works. It just died. I was sitting there
> thinking "ignition switch" (which is only about three years old) when I
> noticed that the clock was dead as well. That kind of threw me- I don't
> know how or if that clock circuit is tied into anything ignition/switch
> related. I tried the key and got nothin'.
>
> I was just getting unbuckled to start poking through things when the stereo
> head started making a noise and the display came back on. I gave it a
> second and tried the key again and it started right up....................