J.Lo's a butt

[Reg Evans]

I decided to wake J.Lo from a month long slumber and take her to town. Primed the carb and brought her around to give her a bath and then sped off to town. 6 miles down the road and I pulled into the gas station and shut the engine off and that was it. The battery was dead as a door nail. Nothing. I open the hood and I can hear the battery caps bubbling with the key off. I opened the caps and can see bubbles rising to the surface as if it's being charged. I just got home with the tow truck.

What are your guesses as to what went wrong?????

I'm thinking maybe a stuck voltage regulator.

[greg g]

Did you notice if the amp gauge was pegged???? Tried to start it since?? Got a voltage reading on the battery? Thought you had your own tow trucks. Then you went and hired one.................

[Andydodge]

Reg.........tell ya what, seeing as you got one of them coupes without all the correct number of windows, I'll take it off your hands, can you send it down to a mate in L.A.?......lol.........thats a seriously nice mopar, is it still 6volts?.....can't offer much in the way of a suggestion apart from your mention of the regulator, strange tho' that it started fine then decided to give up the ghost......real nice car anyway........do you want my mates address?.........lol.......andyd

[Reg Evans]

The amp gauge wasn't showing anything.... Pos or Neg. It was too hot for this lazy old man to hitch a ride home and come back with my tow dolly so I just bit the bullet and paid the outrageous $120 for a 6 mile. fee. The neg battery cable seemed overly hot and was a little loose on the manual starter solenoid so I tightened that up but nothing changed so I disconnected it. I haven't tried anything yet or even checked the battery condition. Too hot right now.

[JIPJOBXX]

Reg you should get towing insurance! I got my insurance at camper world and it covers all my rigs. I got it mainly for my 13 Ton monster motor home but have never had to use it. My oldest son did use it twice last winter to get his car started (Dead Battery). Well worth 90 dollars a years for peice of mine. Jon

[Captain Neon]

We have AAA+. When we lived in Minnesota, we had unlimited number of service calls/year. Now here in Colorado, we are limited. I can't remember the exact number, but I believe it is seven. It is still cheaper than hiring a wrecker and paying full-price, but it does give me pause before calling for help. In Minnesota, I remember calling a couple of times just to pull my Neon out of the pile the snow plow had buried me into.

[Reg Evans]

Well, I've been lucky I guess cause I haven't been stranded by any of my old clunkers for many years except for running out of gas a couple of times due to inaccurate fuel gauges.

I found the problem with J.Lo. The internals of the manual starter switch grounded out somehow. It was an easy fix cause I had a new one on the shelf. I've got another problem now. The system doesn't seem to be charging and the amp gauge does not move when I turn the head lights on or hit the brake pedal. Now What ???