Intermittent Hesitation

[Badger]

Good day.

Since I got my 'cruiser, I've noticed intermittent hesitation. What I mean is that I'll be driving along and then it seems like the car loses a little bit of power for a fraction of a second, and then the power comes back.

The other night, I noticed that this hesitation coincided with dimming of headlights (haven't driven with headlights much since i got it)

It obviously is some sort of electrical issue, and so my questions are "Has anyone else experienced something like this?" and "what could the probably cause/solution be?"

I'm kind of thinking maybe alternator issues are the cause but would have thought the battery would mitigate it. My other thought is that there is some main electrical relay that may be cycling.

Anyone? Anyone? Beuller? Anyone?

Thx

[Mean Green]

Originally Posted by Badger

Good day.

Since I got my 'cruiser, I've noticed intermittent hesitation. What I mean is that I'll be driving along and then it seems like the car loses a little bit of power for a fraction of a second, and then the power comes back.

The other night, I noticed that this hesitation coincided with dimming of headlights (haven't driven with headlights much since i got it)

It obviously is some sort of electrical issue, and so my questions are "Has anyone else experienced something like this?" and "what could the probably cause/solution be?"

I'm kind of thinking maybe alternator issues are the cause but would have thought the battery would mitigate it. My other thought is that there is some main electrical relay that may be cycling.

Anyone? Anyone? Beuller? Anyone?

Thx

What year, model and how many miles?

Still using stock plugs and stock plug wires?

Spark plug gap?

Dimming headlights when braking has been a problem since the PT came out. Are the battery cables clean? Some have gone to a hyperground system to stop this problem.

[Badger]

'05 Vert with 35 000 mi.

Stock plugs and wires. I could possibly understand the hesitation due to that, but would that cause the dimming of lights too? No braking was involved. It was at hwy speeds, cruising not accelerating or decelerating.

Will check cables

Thanks.

[Mean Green]

Originally Posted by Badger

'05 Vert with 35 000 mi.

Stock plugs and wires. I could possibly understand the hesitation due to that, but would that cause the dimming of lights too? No braking was involved. It was at hwy speeds, cruising not accelerating or decelerating.

Will check cables

Thanks.

You are 5k overdue for a tune up, plugs and wires. I used the stock Copper Plus plugs gapped at .040 in my '03 GT along with either Magnecor or MSD plug wires. Car was modified and a beast. Factory plug wires are junk and should not be used again.

The dimming lights could be a bad ground at the battery cable or at the body ground near the battery. Hard to say if it'll go deeper than that.

[CREWZIN]

A lot of us went to Hyper-Grounding to stop flickering lights, give a better ground to the computer and for radio interference.

In the picture below, it shows where I put three extra grounding wires in the engine compartment. All come from the ground (negative) terminal directly off the battery. I went to the hold down bolt of the computer, the ground screw on the body work and a grounded bolt on the side of the engine.