Yep, that's normal for a car with some mileage under its belt. Electrical gremlins are one of the more common killers of these cars, that and blown head gaskets with rusting being the third.
Go get some pipe cleaners, a toothbrush, electrical contact cleaner and some dielctric grease. With the above implements go through every connector under the hood and scrub them clean and replace the dielectric grease. Replace or repair any connectors that look suspect, make sure the mating connectors fit tightly. Remove/check the various grounds (near the battery, from the firewall to the fuel rail, from the passenger motor mount to the passenger frame rail, etc) Finish with the connectors at the logic module at the passenger kick panel. This includes the battery terminals. Make sure your black plastic heat/water cover is installed on the distributor and that your distributor wires are tied up out of the way and that your multiprong connectors are zip tied together. More than likely you'll find some erroneous stuff. If you install a newer mini-nippendenso alternator from a later FWD car you'll find the motor won't be as likely to stall from the extra load of the cooling fan being added. A newer fan motor would probably help as well as the motors take more energy to start as they age. Good luck, Stefan Mullikin Portland, OR Co-Founder PNW-SDAC http://www.pnw-sdac.org 1980 Fiat X-1/9 1984 Dodge Rampage 2.2 1987 Dodge Daytona Shelby Z 1987 Shelby CSX #106 1988 Shelby CSX-T #3 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Donald L. Gilbert, Jr. Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 1:57 PM To: Shelby Dodge List; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SD> Stalling, No Restart 1987 SC Seems like I don't write for months, then I write a bunch in a few days. Took the 1987 SC out for inspections. It passed without trouble, runs good now that the timing belt is in the right place. Pulls hard, spun tire in second gear. Felt like it used to. So I stop at a local motorcycle place to look up some part numbers, come back out to the car and it won't start. It cranks, but no fire. It has done this before, especially on hot summer days. I get the service manager to run me up to Advance Auto Parts and I get a new ignition pickup (Hall Effect) and install that. NO CHANGE, still won't start. I thought that my Hall Effect was going bad from other peoples suggestions. Last time it did this, it would restart after sitting for 15 minutes. No luck this time. My parents live about 30 minutes away so I call them and my mother says she will come pick me up. When she arrives, the car still won't start. Figuring I have nothing to loose, I check the codes. Here's the list. 22 : Coolant Temp Sensor ( I expected that because I tried to start it unhooked hoping to fire in the closed loop setting) 27 : Fuel Injector Control Circuit or injector circuit not responding ( That's new to me) 34 : Speed Control Vacuum ( don't have speed control ) 43 : Ignition Control circuit or spark interface circuit ( Another new one to me ) 54 : Problem with the distributor synchronization circuit ( related to 43 ? ) So I unplug connectors, the one near the baro sensor ( 5 wires ? ) had oilly crud in it, so I wiggled it around, the plug on the power module pushed in a hair and the rest that I could get to easily looked good. Got in, turned the key, fired right up. THIS MAKES NO SENSE !!!! So I drive home, running very well again. Pull in the driveway and let it sit running. At one point when the radiator fan kicked in, I thought it was going to stall. It stumbled, recovered and kept running. I shut it off, waiting 10 minutes, tried to restart it. It fired up. I checked the codes again and got, 12 : Memory standby power lost 34 : see above All the other codes were gone. I really need some help here folks. I don't want to drive it to Carlisle like this. Thanks Donnie 1987 Shelby Charger Greensburg, PA -----------------------REMOVE-FOOTER-WHEN-REPLYING---------------------------- Questions? Visit http://www.sdml.org/ To be removed, visit http://www.sdml.org/pages/leave.html
