Tap Gas And Car Shuts Off

[jedi_light]

i have a 95 eclipse gst


the other day i was coming home from school, when all of a sudden all my lights came on at once and then the car shut down.

the engine bay was smoking

when i popped the hood and the smoke cleared i noticed that the ground wire for the engine (which comes off the bolt that connects the throttle cable to the engine and goes to the firewall) had busted out of its insulation and looked to of grounded out on the metal part of the throttle cable.(which in turn melted the plastic on the cable)

so i took that off and car started right back up

but all the plastic was melted off the throttle cable so of course the gas pedal wouldn't move. so we towed the car home.

when i got it back home i noticed when i press the break it would sizzle (i couldn't hear it while driving) it was faint

so i disconnected the wire that was connected to the first button from the bottom of the pedal because that is where it was coming from.


i just got a new throttle cable today and started the car up. tapped the gas pedal and the car shut off.

turned it on again taped and pressed the gas pedal in and the car would do just fine.

the battery, starter, alternator are all under a year old and have been tested they are fine

also i can manually turn the throttle from the throttle body and the car is fine

and if i turn on my lights and ac at the some time the car seems to want to shut off

i don't expect you to know what exactly is going on but i'm at a wall here and if i could get some things to narrow this problem down a bit it would really help out.

 

[GVR4592]

Did you replace the burned ground cable?

 

[jedi_light]

ya

i just let the car run for like 10 minutes while watching it and the throttle cable got really hot

so i shut it down

 

[jedi_light]

well i figured it out by myself thanks for only one person responding to bad that wasn't the problem

 

[GVR4592]

So what was the problem?

 

[Defiant]

No block ground is what it sounded like.

 

[jedi_light]

i checked my cruise control and it had a short in it and kept blowing the ground wire

i replaced that put it all back together it is working great

 

[boostnbuds]

my car grounded through the throttle cable too! i've never heard of anyone else with this problem....my throttle cable melted through and caught the insulation on the hood on fire and my entire engine burned down in like 10 mins beyond repair, consider yourself very lucky

 

[1LE]

I lost TWO of my ground cables in January and somehow it appears that the engine grounded itself through the power transistor... Somewhat successfully too I might add. Only ran on 2 cylinders while it was doing that, but nothing caught on fire.

Well, eventually the power transistor gave out later on (after grounds were fixed) and I ended up with a bunch of gas in the cat which caused it to collapse... Lucky I had a real big high-flow cat. A standard one might have gotten hot enough to burn the car up.