so get this dropped a 350 in running real nice sounds good .open headers yadi yadi ya anyway let it idle and for about an hour to make sure nothign would happen when i pul in out of the drive way. got literally 2 miles or less down the road and the car cuts out on me. splutters back on cuts out splutters and dies for the third time.

I have no no power to the inside of my car except for the headlights.

I think its the ignition switch but im not sure. it seems like everything that turns on with the key wont work . ive lready replaced the key/lock and tumbler

Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated

 

It sounds like the fusible links by the starter might have fried, or the ignition switch.

 

Fuses okay?

 

fuses are fine, checked em already so its another yes for the Ignition switch? can anyone tell me how to change it?ive got it all apart but theres a cable connected to it and i dont know how to disconnect it

 

any other thoughts?

 

ok i got the switch changed and the tumbler changed but still no power to the inside of the car or starter i dont know of any fusible links that mcgarnicle has suggested any ideas where thier at?

 

I don't want to over-simplify your problem, but it sounds like the battery.

Have you checked it?

 

They are right at the starter on the 2 or3 wires coming off of the solenoid.

 

i checked and i fried a wire in half coming off the starter .... it was in the heat tube so i dunno how it happened

 

It's kind of like the bumper stickers say... "**it happens"

Happens all the time. I think, based on analyzing what mine looked like when the **it happened to me right in the middle of a BUSY intersection as I shifted from 1st to 2nd taking off from the light while driving down the road in the pouring rain wearing a suit with my wife in the car, that the insulation on that fusible link (that's what it is....) either wore through from rubbing, or melted through; and when it touched the tube, it was all over.

Pretty much normal it seems.

Just fix it, and move on. Probably nothing else wrong, nothing else to get worked up about.

Sorry you didn't take that first advice about "fusible links"... would have saved you some trouble. You're not the first or the only one though: everybody seems to want to make that occurence harder than it really is.

 

thing is i did check them but didnt realize the wire got messed up "inside" the tube. i just looked saw it going in both ends and figured it was fine. but its all good i needed a new key and tumbler anyway so why not do it all at the same time?