Team MightyBoy

hi,

im having a problem, my car drives fine all day long, but at night when i turn on my lights my car just stalls? when i turn my lights on and start my car it starts and then stalls? but when i turn them off everythings fine? does any1 have any ideas why this happens and how i might be able to fix it? should i rewire the headlights to a seperate switch?

thanks

Sounds like your alternator is clagged. Time for a new one.

Think you maybe right, i found some dodgey wiring near the battery terminal aswell, so ill give the dogey wiring a shot first and if all else fails ill change the alternator.

thanks guys!

Are you talking about the fusable link?

hehhe yea kinda, but i redone the wire but still same problem. im guess as stated in this post that its alternator related. i will try another battery and then if that fails i will change the
alternator and belt. i will change the alternator to a 50a one instead of the 40a one. hope this goes well.its obvously a voltage regulator problem aswell.

hey tamon!

i changed the alternator today and also the Voltage regulator and it still stalled on me. so we tested out everything from monitoring the battery power with differences of power ussage from the wipers and blickers and etc and the readings were actually increasing!!! but yet the car stalled. so in the end all we had to do was change the idle speed and it doesnt stall and the lights dont dim nows its so funny to belive that 4 hours work went by and the real problem only took 2 minutes the fix ( half a turn on the screw )

so if anyone out there is having this same sort of problem this post will be a helpfull guide in order to understand problems and solutions, we could of done it faster it was just that the alternator bolt took us 1 hour to get off because it got stripped so we had to chizzzzel it off lol!!

hope this helps!
thanks for all your guys input! much appreicated!!!

I just had a thought. Is the little switch on the intake pipe flicked to summer or winter? Mine was set to summer and the other night i was struggling to keep it from stalling and i relised, flicked the switch to winter and the problem was solved. Glad to hear you solved yours any way. Might be an idea to check though

yea, with my winter / summer switch i always have it on SUMMER because i have advanced my ignition timing and i always want cool air and run 98 octane to bypass PINGING *DETONATION* so i i kinda have no choice but to keep it on the summer level ehheh thanks for letting me know though