The month from hell continues! (electrical problems)
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Laughing Gas
Joined: Jan 2010
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From: Surrey, BC, Canada
these trucks once started can be powered with a 9 volt battery. then engine is solid, if you do sell it, as just the engine, you dont need to worry about mentioning that part. you have a gounding short that is killing your batts. seems that the drain is pretty bad too. i found mine by taking a multimeter to the frame and chassis, i found a naked wire rubbing the body, it was delivering nearly 4 volts to the body but never popped a fuse....go figure that one out! lol
I'm kinda amazed it runs looking at it.
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From: Camano Island
Some sort of parasitic drain? Something has to be drawing current all the time if it keeps killing your batteries.
I want to say if you disconnect the grounds (both batteries) then put a volt meter from the ground cable to the negative terminal, it should read zero while the truck is off. If its reading anything else, there is power flowing through a circuit somewhere. Start pulling fuses until it stops, then you've found the circuit to check through.
I might be wrong on this, can't quite remember. Also, the radio will pull amount of current to keep the clock running, so pull that fuse first.
I want to say if you disconnect the grounds (both batteries) then put a volt meter from the ground cable to the negative terminal, it should read zero while the truck is off. If its reading anything else, there is power flowing through a circuit somewhere. Start pulling fuses until it stops, then you've found the circuit to check through.
I might be wrong on this, can't quite remember. Also, the radio will pull amount of current to keep the clock running, so pull that fuse first.
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