Electrical gremlins

[06iornhorse]

Well three weeks ago the car would not start just turned over. Then later that day it started. I noticed the floor was soaked so I dried it all up took two days and fixed the water leak and the car has been fine for three weeks now then last night I noticed the gauges would dimm and brighten periodicly then the car lost all power today I started unpluging plugs on the sjb and al of a sudden I had power again and got home. Went out to a car show and the car lost power at a stop light and died but came right back on. I guess my real question is can it take that long for the sjb to start acting up, does this sound like signs of it and can I repair it myself. And drive it to the stealership to get whatever needs to be done to it flashed or whatever. Your help and input will be greatly appreciated. Sorry for the long post.

 

[bigwilly43729]

Welcome to the electrial gremlins club. Best thing I can tell you is to make sure all of your fuses are seated good, grounds are good, battery terminals are clean, etc.

I had some sort of strange gremlin that wouldn't let the car start and caused the TB to make a loud, rapid clicking noise. Kept giving me a keep alive voltage fault code. Pushed down on all the fuses and the car fired right up. Code went away. I took a small piece of foam and put it on the inside of the fusebox lid to keep pressure on the fuses and haven't had a problem with them since.

 

[06iornhorse]

Same thing mine did when u turn on the key but no codes to speak of the only noise was the tb clicking and power flickering

 

[bigwilly43729]

Yep, give some of those fuses a wiggle sometime; they are in there pretty loose. I can buy vibes shaking them out enough to cause that. If you get a code, you won't see it until the car actually starts.

Are you seeing a line of dashes where the odometer readout would be?