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Old 12-24-2006, 09:53 AM
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checked every fuse..charged the battery just to make sure but im still not getting any power. the car is completely dead.anyone have any ideas on what it might be? any help is greatly appriciated. thanks.
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Remove your battery cables from the battery. After they're disconnected, pull the protective rubber boots off of them. Find any corrosion? If so (and it'* very likely), clean that up with a wire brush and some baking soda/water solution. Clean the boots the same way. Put it back together and clean the opposite ends (particularly the ground locations and the hot feed to the starter) of each cable.

Should fix you right up.
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check the wire going into the starter as well?
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Each end of EVERY battery cable. Disconnect, pull off boots, clean, and reassemble with dielectric grease. Including the ground location on the passenger side of the front cylinder head under the ICM/Coil assembly.
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10-4....i'll let ya know whats up after all that. thanks man
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You'll probably read this after you do the work, but we now see about 5-10 of these types of problems per month. Nearly all of them respond to this treatment.

One of my Bvilles just went through this. The other one hasn't yet, thank God. But it'* not really that big of a job. Should take you an hour or two paying attention to details, and taking your time.

I call that a nine-beer job. Just an hour or two.
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got it done. dunno whether it was corrosion or a wire on the starter sylinoid was loose , but shes runnin now. thanks for the help man. appriciate it
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