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I hate it when this happens! LOL I remember I had a Karman Ghia lowered a 1970 and it had a big engine... We Used to drag it.. But one time i was coming thru my little town and I busted a Left real hard doing about 25-30MPH and the damn battery fell on to the engine and the G light came on and the car filled up full of smoke and luckilly I had a 13mm wrench in the door. (Thats always where i leave it) and pulled over real quick and unhooked it and re mounted the battery. And the ground wire casing just had a good scortching so i electrical taped it and it was ok from there on..... And one other time in my 73 Beetle I was getting ready to replace the floor in it because my battery box was rotted out and i had wood and stuff rigged (Things we do to drive a VW) so the battery wouldnt fall out. And i was jamming around a turn on a backroad up the street and it was bouncy alittle and the damn battery fell out of the floor doing about 45 around a turn. And once i finally stopped and seen a big line of BATTERY ACID LOL!!!!! (Its funny now) for about 500 feet or more. and the damn battery was lodged under my car and the terminals were shorting out on the floor of my car and the battery was smoking pretty good at this point. So i backed the car up by hand and got the battery dislodged from the bottom of the car and I got my Trusty 13mm and un hooked it and threw it over the guardrail and let it sit there and smoke because it smashed the cells in on the bottom of the battery. Right after that a friend picked me up and drove me home and i got another battery from home and rigged in the floor again and drove it home. That was a crazy experience. >From Chris Swaffford S.W. Cincinnati Ohio http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/garage/4265/ 73' Yellow Square 61,500mi Manual 71' Lt.Blue Square 88,000mi Auto 90 Nissan Sentra & 83 Ford LTD (Gas Hog) On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 01:08:18 +0100 Per Lindgren <lindgre@online.no> writes: > > > Lorenza Rozier wrote: > > > and the coil was > > dangling (probably bumping around) I reattached it, > > If the coil was just hanging by the wires, it is a great possibility > that some non isolated connector touched ground back there. This > would > of course cause a short, and the engine will stall, no matter which > side > (+ or -) of the coil touched ground. > > PerL > 73 Variant L > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/ > ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.