I have a 1986 F150 4x4 that I use just for plowing snow at home it isn't on the road.I did a real no no the battery went dead,I took out my battery charger and with a glance at the battery I hooked it up (someone who owned it be for me replaced the neg.battery cabel with a red cabel)I just didn't look, my fault.Well you know what happend next yes I put the charger on boost an hit the button.Not good, lots of smoke and now nothing.{You can stop laughing now}All I want is to make it run so I can plow,is there a way to do this without breaking the bank or what. Any help would be great.

Thanks,cmac22

P.S. It's ok to laugh I
only paid $300 for the truck

 

Sorry I posted this in the wrong forum first time here didn't look through very well be for I posted.

 

first, cmac22, you need to LOOK before you put a post in the wrong place in this forum.

oh, and LOOK before you go to charge your battery also.

with that said, what can we do to help?

describe what was damaged.

 

Eh, the trucks are so similar, why not just offer some suggestions? Like check all fusible links on the starter solenoid and also between the alternator and the battery. A friend of mine hooked up jumper cables backwards in the dark, and blew the 80 amp main fuse. Find where the magic electric smoke came from, and when you get it back in, everything will work again. It all runs on magic smoke, and now that you've released it, it won't work until you put it back . With any luck, you replace a few fusible links and it'll run to plow again. Good luck.

 

Thanks every one just looked at a few fusible links off the solenoid found one wire burnt off inside wire housing before the link there are two more that look okay, wire don't feel soft on either side of link but can't tell if the link is bad I will just get more links and replace them I guess.Most of the smoke seamed to come from under the solenoid so I hope that it was just those links.I didn't find a 80amp fuse where is it?on the main fuse panel.

Once again thanks and sorry about
posting on the wrong forum.

Cmac22

 

do you have a power distribution box under the hood? i have a 94 and i am not as familier with 88. do you have lites? did you get a different battery? can you hot wire it to start. how long was it hooked up wrong?

 

The charger was on for about 5or10 sec. alot of smoke as I said in last posting I took out the battery and charged it for hour or so put it back in and no lights no nothing but it had gone dead in just the past few weeks.I had not started the truck for a few weeks before all this happend thats why I jumped it in the first place.But it had been working ok before ,I have left it longer then that without starting it??

thanks cmac22