while driving just shut off?
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3rd Gear
Joined: Jan 2022
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From: PA AREA
while driving just shut off?
so I just bought a 1988 corvette base, just installed a new clutch master and clutch slave cylinder let the car warm up and we took it out for a drive temps and everything was fine running great. The overdrive was being a little funky but nothing concerning then we are approaching a stop light and it just shuts off like power and everything. The battery was stone dead to note before we took it so we had to jump it to get it running when it shut off I hooked a jump pack up to it again and all lights went on dash and all but no click no crank was stone dead any ideas on even where to start getting a new battery tomorrow? thank you for your time.
Drifting
Joined: Feb 2016
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From: Simi Valley CA
Common issue on any car that is this old. Clean all electrical connections. Grounds, plug connections, both sides of battery and cables. Clean the connections to the PCM, everything. There's electrical sprays that will help clean plug connectors that you can't get a wire brush into.
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