I have been following this site for quite sometime due to issue's I have been running into with a 2000 LS. Thanks to you guys I have got the red dragon up and running again on several occasions. This time however I can't figure it out.....

All the electronics are out. I turn the ignition and nothing check the battery at autozone it is fully charged and in good health. I clean the terminals with a wire brush. (there was a small amount of corrosion) Reinstall the battery and all of the electronics work again. I go to turn the ignition and it shuts off all of the electronics. Unhook the battery and reconnect and all of the electronics work again until I turn the ignition then everything dies once more.

So I come here read a bunch check all of the fuses in the door nothing there. Check all of the fuses under the hood and don't really know how to check the larger relays but I unplug them all and look them over nothing stood out.

I find the very well written thread on the ignition switch and from the sound of it guess it is the ignition switch (I am not hearing a click from the starter so I figure it is somewhere in before that in the line hopefully not an I-D10-T error)

Replace the ignition switch and there is no longer a loss of all electrical systems when I turn the key. But still nothing.

***One note: I don't know if I correctly did the passlock relearn. Would this cause this problem? A link to the video is below....

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2005496/Vide...%2046%20PM.mov

I turn the ignition everything lights up with no problems. The security light goes off when the door is closed.

I wish I could just take the thing to a mechanic but being a student and needing the car by monday I don't have the funds or the time

Thanks for all of the help in the previous threads as well as currently.

 

Does your accessory position work correctly? If it doesn't, you may not have the ignition switch properly installed; it could be one tooth off. If that checks out ok, make sure that the crank fuse is good, then test the purple wire at the starter (small wire).

 

Another thing to check is make sure that the connections at the battery are GOOD and TIGHT. grab ahold of the wire near where it connects to the battery and try to move it around on the post (while keeping the bolts in) if it moves around at all it might be as simple as a bad connection (ive had the exact same symptoms end up being this on more than one occasion). I actually wound up having to take the rubber insulators off the wire ends on my blazer because they weren't allowing a proper connection.

 

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Its your battery ends, do not just look at where it touches the battery, a common failure point on factory ends is the point where the wires go inside the plastic casing of the ends. If you have a hood light that works try to start it and when the power fails wiggle the wire while watching the hood light and i bet it will come on.

I sound like a broken record at this but spend the $4 on ends.

 

I had installed the teeth wrong thanks. Now I am trying to manually reset the passlock.....

 

Glad to help and also glad it was something so simple!

 

Well got it reset and I am also very happy that it was such a simple fix. Thanks for the help I really appreciate it.....

 

No problem Sir