Electrical?

[peekaboobfv]

today my car jerked going down the highway uphill when i pressed the gas to maintain speed, it felt like the car was about to die, the speedometer dropped it's speed and the radio kept turning on and off. First time i've ever had this problem. Two weeks ago I replaced the car battery and terminals due to the worst corsion i've seen in a car and all the fuild was missing out of the battery. (car died out of no where in the parking lot of farmfresh. When i replaced the battery i also notices two wires that hook to the positive cable melted in a spot and it had corosion in the wire thread itself. I striped the wire a little cleaned it out the best i could then tapped that up. I also noticed today one of those wires going into the positive cable was so hot that it burned me while the other was not. last week i also hooked the ignition wires 2, 4, and 6 up wrong and it misfired for about 10 mintues until i put them in the right order. Any ideas? 97 Dodge Avenger 2.5L V6 4 speed auto

A friend said his sister had a problem that sounded just like mine and it was just a wire dealing with the battery cable.

Just trying to get any info on the problem i can have the weekend off plus monday. Military so i either have to fix by then (or atleast in the shop) or start looking for a new car. thanks for any help

Oh i also had the trans rebuilt couple years ago even though the jerk i don't think it's trans related. I also replaced the battery terminals with the better type

[emt1134]

It is possible that the corrosion has worked it's way into the cable.. what you should do is test for voltage drop along the cable.. place one part of a voltmeter at the battery terminal of the cable you are testing, and place the other end at the alternator (+) cable post.. you should have less than .5V ..check other branches the same way, end to end... you may also have an alternator that is overcharging.. check voltage output

[peekaboobfv]

Originally Posted by emt1134

It is possible that the corrosion has worked it's way into the cable.. what you should do is test for voltage drop along the cable.. place one part of a voltmeter at the battery terminal of the cable you are testing, and place the other end at the alternator (+) cable post.. you should have less than .5V ..check other branches the same way, end to end... you may also have an alternator that is overcharging.. check voltage output

Yeah the corrosion did get into the cable at the spot the wire protector melted, I don't know how bad the corrosion is on the rest of the cable the the wire wrap was still covering. Gonna do what i can tomarrow and i'll post my findings up here, would have done that today but it's been nothing but rain last two days.