Re: Help(ASAP) my 1996 cuts off while driving what should i
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2011 7:55 pm
I had a lot of the same problems and found a wiring problem. I was on the side of the highway after my 2001 SSEi decided to shut off and not start again. I was fiddling around under the hood and my wife suggested it might be a loose wire or something. I thought that sounded pretty stupid, but I had absolutely nothing else to do. I kept wiggling wires and telling her: "try it now hon." Yeah, it started. Yeah I had to admit that maybe wiggling wires wasn't so stupid after all.
Under where the coils are all lined up is a huge mass of wires with a real wide plug that plugs into the base where all the coils are. It has a small bolt that screws in and hold this plug in. On mine at some point someone over tightened this bold and the plug itself was cracked. After I got home that night, I unscrewed this bold and pulled out this wide plug. It was obvious that there had been some water leakage into the connections. I cleaned it up and it ran great with no problems. The next time I was in the U-Pull it lot with my son getting parts for his car, I found one and replaced it. I've never had another problem. The wiring was pretty easy to replace. The big plug has lots of wires, but these wires go to three different places and there were plugs on the ends where it connected to other stuff, so there was no splicing. I'm sure someone will read this and tell you what that plug goes to and what it's called. It's the big wide plug with the small hex head screw that holds the plug in.
Under where the coils are all lined up is a huge mass of wires with a real wide plug that plugs into the base where all the coils are. It has a small bolt that screws in and hold this plug in. On mine at some point someone over tightened this bold and the plug itself was cracked. After I got home that night, I unscrewed this bold and pulled out this wide plug. It was obvious that there had been some water leakage into the connections. I cleaned it up and it ran great with no problems. The next time I was in the U-Pull it lot with my son getting parts for his car, I found one and replaced it. I've never had another problem. The wiring was pretty easy to replace. The big plug has lots of wires, but these wires go to three different places and there were plugs on the ends where it connected to other stuff, so there was no splicing. I'm sure someone will read this and tell you what that plug goes to and what it's called. It's the big wide plug with the small hex head screw that holds the plug in.