i had similar probs on my 62 with electrical gremlins. i knew something was f/u electrically, but had the worst time finding it. i completely stripped the inside down to the metal and wires. went thuroughly thru and found some wiring problems needing a fix, but not the cause of this mother fawking 2 month ordeal. i hoped it was something inside b/c would be an easier and cheaper part replacing issue, but searched with no luck. then checked everything outside the body and found more non-related problems that i fixed, but still no luck. then i tracked the wire loom from battery to comp. and ignition. had discrepencies in what the voltages on some wires should be and one set of starting( ign., fuel pump relay, fuse setup for each, fuel pump, and power wire to fuel injectors, and a few others) tryed one fix on the three wire coming off the pos terminal on battery. one was a little messed up and loose coming out of the seperater plug just off the battery. so i replaced that one wire and reran a new wire to (seemed smart at the time) make d@mn sure that the wire problem was fixed with no possabilities that some other point in the old wire was also messed up. so with finally fixing that problem. she started after a month and a week of ripping apart, angrily searching, and hopelessly praying for an answer to the problem of no starty. 15 min. within fixing, put the hood back on, some of the dash, just enought to runher right and to loosely mount the guages, and throught the seats back in. loaded up the off road gear and a small radio for tunes and took off for the long awaited offroad adventure. we left my house at midnight. we returned ready to kill each other three hours later. why? you ask, hahahaha!!!! my brilliant fix was not thurough or not the complete fix to what my prob. was. the new wire taped and fitted to look stock within the oem loom, completely fried up and burnt thru its protective surround and thru partial layers of some close and/ or touching wires' surrounding (rubber/ plastic, whatever the wires are coated with). so for another month in frustration and with wheels and offroading, i searched and found that in a (i assume this is why, at least, i feel is the only reason for this) prior head gasket and seals cleaning and replacement, when reassembling, the wires weren't installed right and the main power wire running to all the injectors was positioned to close to something sharp, or hot. either way, it melted and touched some metal and grounded part of the engine/ efi component. caused the electrical malfunction and strained the power input running from battery to injectors, which has many connecting parts and pieces. and in the final strain caused the weakest point along that power supply line to fry and hence the destruction and hault to my driving and my enjoyment, and my stress releasing balls to the walls anyroute accepted offroading. maybe this gives you some things to check out. and atleast reminds us all that even though we fixed what imediatly seemed to be wrong, there is possibly an underlying and ultimate cause to the problem we assume is fixed. so be thurough and check any and all possibilities and fix anything that is questionable and/or should at some point be fixed. and keep your eyes open for things that may be a future problem.
sorry so long but i am sure some of you will get a good laugh at my kick in the a$$ repair event. oh yeah, the wire i had replaced fried 45 min. from my house just outside a grocery store, the only thing around for a few miles. called a fried for help. he had to come to us, pick up my roommate who went back to our house picked up his truck and trailer. came back to get me had to use a third truck to pull my cruiser from angel with cable, to get me up on the trailer. then we finally got on the road back home, so i could piss away my anger with a case and 1/2 of beer. woke up ready to continue the search day later. order a set of engine wire loom from sor, but didn't contain the set of wires i needed although that is not made clear not did the attempt to clearify or correct me when i called and explained what i needed. overnighted that. then in excitment to finally fix the prob. opened the box to find wires that were irrealevent to my needs. called them and payed more for the set i needed, payed for overnight. after having spent a day explaining what the exact wires were and finally after they denyed what i said i had recieved and what was supposedly included with their set i first bought, they realized that the set i needed were kept with the engines when they parted out cruisers. so they took one from an engine and sent it out. that was the final fix, and i made sure to install it properly and took extra time and zip ties to make sure that the loom would stay permanently safe from hot parts and binds, or any sharp metal edges and any imaginable causing situation to that ever happening again. but i feel it is now better than stock.
so hope you get some laughs, but hope you also get some advise.
Ok I am confused again/so more. I replaced a dead alt, even tested bad, and while driving Yesterday the engine just stopped. I started pulling over and shifted to neutral still nothing. When I stopped I Put it in park nothing, no clicks no fuelpump whine, nothing. I am thinking a neutral safety switch. So I poke around the transmission wiring get in still nothing. Try messing under the hood nothing, then out of the blue I turn the key and it works. Start home happens again but before I can stop I shift to neutral and it starts no problem.
