[NoVa-Corvairs] I dunno.

[ALBERT BIRKS]

Dan: Of course you should first have your battery checked at one of the auto parts stores -  the one where you purchased the battery is best.  What happens if you put in another battery?

I had a problem like you describe: The heavy cable attached to the battery via a clamp to the battery post was not correctly soldered into the clamp. It looked great, however when you tried to start the car, the voltage drop across the bad solder joint simply ate up all of the power needed to run the starter. The headlights looked good when they were turned on because they don't draw the amount of current needed by the starter.  I ended up pulling the cable out of the battery post clamp and there was no sign of where it was soldered to the clamp.  Hard to believe, but true. I cleaned off the black stuff off of the cable, tinned the clean cable and re-soldered the cable and clamp back together. That solved the problem.

Where are you attaching the jumper cables? You must be by-passing the problem area in the circuit. Maybe a new cable would help.

Al Birks
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Daniel Goldberg<mailto:goldie at danielgoldberg.net> 
  To: Northern Va Corvair Club<mailto:novacc-list at corvair.org> 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 11:21 PM
  Subject: [NoVa-Corvairs] I dunno.


  I have the following ignition problem:

  When hooked to a jump box, my Corvair will start.

  Unhooked from the jump box and left running, it will continue to run.

  Shut the car off and then try to restart, no power -- it weakly attempts to turn over, but a few seconds later the battery is dead.  No interior lights even.

  The battery is brand new -- maybe two weeks old.

  Any ideas?

  daniel
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