no power... very screwy

[coldshard]

ok so yesterday i drove to my friends house to change my harmonic dampner and timing belt. everything went fine and we finished faster than i thought we would. we put everything back together and hooked the batt back up, turned the key and... nothing, all the dash lights went off and no sounds, no nothing. we figured the battery must've drained so we jumped it... started right up, we set the timing and shut it off and went and had a celebratory beer. came back out to go home and... nothing, no lights, no sounds, so we jumped it again... ran fine datalogger showed 13.8-14.2 volts, put it in reverse made it to the end of the driveway and it died again. tried to start it and all the dash lights went out and slowly came back up... took the batt to have it checked and its fully charged and good, i know the alt. is fine i checked it. anyone have any ideas as to why it would do this, do i have a short somewhere maybe? any thoughts or comments would be appreciated greatly... i need to have it running by mon. afternoon, i gotta go to work on tues.

 

[oldman]

Dremel the terminal really well, change them if you have to and make sure you tighten them down. Good luck.