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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Maintenance and Repair / September 2007

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95 olds ninety eight dies/ starts right back up year old problem no one can fix

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me@nospam.com - 21 Sep 2007 18:08 GMT
we have a '95 olds ninety eight loaded to the hilt, you will be
driving along and the engine quits, when it does this at the same time
it puts our in the information panel on the dash
Engine Hot A/C disabled

the car will start right back up
the car is not over heating or losing even the slightest bit of
coolant the temp gauge never shows hot

it sometimes will not happen for a few days, sometimes it happens
after 10 minutes sometimes you might be driving the car for hours and
hours (I recently made a trip to and from Florida and it only happened
a few times (some 1200 miles rt)

it is at a shop again 4 different places so far,

what could be causing this?

thanks!

Tom
N8N - 21 Sep 2007 18:21 GMT
On Sep 21, 1:11 pm, m...@nospam.com wrote:
> we have a '95 olds ninety eight loaded to the hilt, you will be
> driving along and the engine quits, when it does this at the same time
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>
> Tom

If there is a temperature sender for the engine computer, separate
from the one for the gauge, that is the first place I would look.
Also check the wiring between that sender and the computer, if it has
any cut/abraded insulation a momentary short to ground could cause a
momentary high engine temp. indication.

nate
Steve B. - 21 Sep 2007 21:25 GMT
>we have a '95 olds ninety eight loaded to the hilt, you will be
>driving along and the engine quits, when it does this at the same time
>it puts our in the information panel on the dash
>Engine Hot A/C disabled

Check the battery cables and grounds real well.  I believe you have
two positive cables at the battery on that car.  Corrosion can build
up between the two and cause some really weird things to happen.
Grounds can also get funky and cause weird things.  I would check the
negative cable at both ends, body ground at the battery, body to
engine ground and the ground wires for the computer.

I had a bit older Olds that used to do a similar thing.  Heading down
the road and it would go wonky and die.  Ended up being the positive
cable thing...

           Steve B.
 
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