Re: [DML] 2653 Stalled out on the highway this morning............

["Bradley Jardis" <bjardis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Forgive my inexperience, but is the ballast resistors the same thing as the
RPM relay?

On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Hank <heskin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>   I had pretty much the identical experience happen to me a few years ago
> on
> the NJ Turnpike.
>
> I was able to pull off to the side, and a while later, the car started up
> and ran fine.
>
> It turned out to be a bad/corroded connector on the ballast resistors
> which
> was flaking out.
>
> -Hank
>
>
> > As I am driving down the highway (doing the precise speed limit of
> course
> > ;)
> > ) I felt a sudden jolt... sort of like I ran something over. Then a
> > smaller jolt. Then the car started to lose power. By the time I got into
> > the right lane and then the breakdown lane the car had shut off.
> > I tried starting it back up immediately and then after two minutes....
> no
> > dice.
> > After ten minutes I tried again and she fired right up. Was a wee bit
> > rough
> > at first but then once she got going there were no further problems.
> >
>
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>
>  
>



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Bradley Jardis


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