[Chrysler300] Sudden Electrical Losses

["Michael Reed" <mrreed@xxxxxxxxx>]

Three times, the most recent yesterday, my "F" has experienced a total electrical loss -- no power to the ignition system, starter, power windows, lights -- nothing. No power to anything -- as if the battery had been disconnected. 

The only thing that I can come up with that would cause this is the (temporary) loss of the ground between the engine and the chassis/body. The negative battery post has been connected to the engine since I purchased the car 28 years ago.

Can anyone give me some advice as to where and how the engine is grounded to the chassis/frame? Somehow this connection is being lost. If the car is allowed to sit for minutes, or a half-hour or so, the connection is miraculously restored, and everything works.

Difficult problem to even try to track down when a failure can't be forced.  Unless... I am misdiagnosing these events. But I don't see how it can be anything else...

Can anyone give me some advice as to where and how the engine is grounded to the chassis/frame? Somehow it seems this connection is being lost. If the car is allowed to sit for minutes, or a half-hour or so, the connection is miraculously restored, and everything works.

Mike Reed in Lake Odessa, Michigan

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