nacanitihs

The other day i was driving to the gas satation in my 89 GT cuz i had like 1/8 of a tank and everything shut off my radio, head lights, tail lights, brake lights, turn signals etc. but my satillite radio was still on... but after i filled up everything worked again. what is the deal with this? does anyone know what could have caused this and how can i prevent this from happening again

92hatchLX

Check your battery terminals and clean them.

nacanitihs

my battery is brand new and they are perfectly clean. my car ran fine just none of the lights and radio worked.

92hatchLX

and I'm guessing that your voltmeter dropped and everything electronically just died. I put in a new battery one time in the vert. Didn't get the connections tight enough and over the course of a week it had some nasty build up on it, cleaned them up, retightened the clamps, and I never had another problem again.

nacanitihs

like i said before my terminals are completely clean and alyways have been and they are tight too. so i dont think that was the problem

Dearborn5.0

did the car stall when everything went out?

nacanitihs

no it didnt. it ran fine and i drove it to the gas station, checked all the fuses and they were fine. filled the tank up and everything worked again. so im completely confused on what could have happened

Mtobler2006

check the tfi module on the distributor, its common problem, the only problem is that you have to pull the dist. to get the module off to do the test. its a simple resistance test that you can find online

mjr46

YO NOOB!!! THIS thread is 2 years old....don't ya' think he might of fixed the prob by now???

FoxGT

lol...