Vinscully50

Earlier today I drove my 1986 Camaro IROC Z to my parents house. She drove fine, car sat for eight hours and I started it and she stalled out once with a rough idle (she's been a rough idle lately, not a high one but a rough one where it goes back and forth between 500-700 RPM before either stalling or reving to stay a alive). I restart the car, she starts no problem, I rev the engine once to keep her alive, I put the car in reverse, about to back out but a Jeep goes speeding by. She stalls and dies. I try starting the car again but not she's acting like the battery is dead. I hear the starter click and all my electronics died. I put the jump box on the car, electronics comeback and jump box says my battery is at 93%.

Every time I try to start the car, my electronics die and I hear the starter only click once (not the machine gun click of a dead battery). Any idea of what could have happened?

PaulyC

You should first verify your battery connections are clean and tight. If that is good then have your battery load tested, a bad battery can show 12 volts and fail a load test and give you what you are hearing. I wouldn't worry about the rest until you verify the battery and connections are good.

Vinscully50

I'm going to test my battery load. One thing I just remember. About a week ago I went to start my car and when I turned the key the starter wouldn't even click like the battery was dead. (The electronics worked) I pulled my parking brake handle to turn the brake on and was about to exit the car in frustration. However, I tried to start it one more time and she started with no problem.

PaulyC

You could be looking at a sticky or failing solenoid. Once you know the easily accessible items are good that's the next thing. This just happened on another thread here:

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/tech...eshooting.html

KyleF

Yup, 100% with PaulyC... Check Connections, Have it load tested, if all is well have your starter tested. I am guessing a dead cell, but could be any of them.