A week ago my wife's 96 F250 started blowing its ABS fuse. I crawled under the truck and jiggled all the connectors and checked the wiring, and it stopped. Then 3 days ago the battery light started coming on and staying on, but with no other problems. Yesterday while driving her radio started to freak out and wouldnt turn off, then her ABS light came on, then after stopping at a traffic light she began to accellerate and it wouldnt shift. It is an automatic. It is now in a parking lot, and the battery is mostly, but not completely dead. Checked all the fuses and none are blown. I tried to jump it, and it melted my jumper cables. Any ideas?

 

Recharge the batteries and have the chrging sytems checked. You have a bad battery or alternator or the connections included with both.

The battery light came on first, the remainder of the things that happened are due to the charging system malfunction.

You need really big jumper cables to charge up 2 batteries and attempt to start it before the batteries are fully charged.

 

Welcome to FTE m0rgan.

Personally, I'd skip the charge and put new batteries in it. Sounds like those are done.

 

If it were me I'd pull both batteries right where she sits, take them home and charge them both completely overnight or longer and test them. If they're still good, put them back in the truck and drive it to a starter alternator shop or a small battery shop and have them test your charging system. They will do it for free and then you will know where you stand. If something turns up bad you can fix it however you want to do so and then you will then have a clean, level playing field and if it still acts up after that then you have other electrical problems. Chances are really good that after you do that you will have no further trouble.

 

I pulled the batteries and the alternator, charged up the batteries overnight and took them all to NAPA. The alternator was bad, but still under warranty after only a year and a half, and the batteries are still good, so lucky me no charge! Thanks for the help!