Grand Issues

I have a buddy at work with a Grand Cherokee.

He is having some electrical issues and I thought I would round table it with everyone for some ideas.

The symptons are a bad ground issue...

No radio, dome light, starter, etc.

He cleaned all the terminals and connections, and the power came back for about a week... but now it is back to acting up again same as it was.

He has done the obvious (check cables and chassis ground, fuses in all the panels, etc.)...

Battery is about a year old.

It showed no signs of warning... worked fine the day before...

Any ideas?

have you tried swaping out battery just to make sure thats not the prob. Could be battery was not putting out that much juice and cleaning the terminals just helped the prob till the battery just stopped putting anything out. Second does it run or jump with jumper cabels. If not, try jumping it with it not hooked up to the battery. if you can get it to run this way the battery is the prob. I had a skid steer do the same thing worked at 9:00 am went to use it at 11am and nothing. wouldn't even jump. swaped battery out and it was fine after that. The battery was only about two years old.

My first instinct is to say gremlins - they get inside and mess up everything. But then I remember the time I said that to one of our office managers when she was complaining about a computer (user) error. I had told her it must be gremlins. Later that month it was acting up again and she called me that the gremlins got inside again and were messing things up!

Allium wrote:

My first instinct is to say gremlins - they get inside and mess up everything. But then I remember the time I said that to one of our office managers when she was complaining about a computer (user) error. I had told her it must be gremlins. Later that month it was acting up again and she called me that the gremlins got inside again and were messing things up!

K... so I will advise him not to feed it after midnight... and leave the hood open in the light... that should get rid of them...

Where is Gizmo dressed as Rambo when I need him.

do they still put fusable links in car nowdays ???? it could be that I had them on my 74 Nova. Get a manual with electrical drawing and trace it out all three should have somthing in common.