Funky Electrical issue

[Skeezer]

New to the SHO Club.
Just purchsed a 94 ATX. Seems ok except for what I think must be a bad ground somewhere.
Starts and idles fine but as you start to turn on electrical accesories it craps it self and stumbles.
So I turned on the lights, AC, Stereo and Then hammer it from and stand still. It farted and stumbled as it tried to accelerate, I turned off the Stereo, Then the AC ,then the lights. The power came back and improved with each item switched off.

anyone have this going on?


Help

Skeezer

 

[Skeezer]

Sorry the post should be easier to undersdstand now. don't know what i was on when I wrote the last sentence.

 

[silver93sho]

Sounds alot like you need to perform an idle air reset. Search "idle air reset" and there are directions about how to do it. But seeing as you just bought the car, i would go through and check/clean all the grounds, check your battery cables for corrosion and even have your alt. checked. The idle air reset should solve your issues.

 

[Skeezer]

Fixed

I did a self test and it confirmed low voltage. I then used a jumper wire and grounded the Motor to the - Bat post. idle smoothed right out. So i built a Ground strap from some old welding cable, put a couple of nice ends on it and Grounded the motor. Car ran perfect today.!!!
I took silver93sho's advice and did an idle reset.

Thanks

 

[mrecoolgar]

Glad it's fixed.
Thanks for the update.