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Oct 20, 2005 | 08:00 AM

Rizzle

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Like a dead battery...

When I go to turn the thing over sometimes it acts like a dead battery and just clicks once. If i change batteries then I get once start out of it. Then the next time i wanna start up it acts like it dead again. I can go back and fourth from battery to battery and it will work fine. Altanator going bad maybe? I have no clue what could be causing this. I had the charging system checked and both batteries and everything read out to get good. What do you guys think?

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Oct 20, 2005 | 08:04 AM

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Oct 20, 2005 | 09:10 AM

subford

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From: Easton,Ks

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Originally Posted by Rizzle

Sounds like you have a draw on your battery while the engine is off.

see the post

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/s...d.php?t=420277

Oct 20, 2005 | 09:24 AM

little tow

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Sometimes it is hard to track down. I just recently found the problem with my 76 F-600 with a similar problem. Everything checked out everything clean etc. The problem finially showed up as a bad terminal on the battery cable- battery end. The original cable was so old the cable inside the terminal had seperated from the terminal causing an on again off again problem.

Oct 20, 2005 | 03:59 PM

Franklin2

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The problem finially showed up as a bad terminal on the battery cable- battery end. The original cable was so old the cable inside the terminal had seperated from the terminal causing an on again off again problem.

I am leaning towards the bad cable solution too. Check connections #1, #2, #3, and #4 in the diagram below. The battery terminals should be clean and shiny. If you have those repairable ends on your cables, get rid of them and buy a whole new cable. The cables are not very expensive in the store. The lower the number of connections, the less trouble you have. The repairable ends just add another connection to corrode.

Oct 20, 2005 | 07:53 PM

Rizzle

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Wouldn't ya know it was a bad battery cable end... Got it off fixed up now. Never fails I wrote all this out and went to think on it some more this afternoon and i figured out hats what it was not to come read you all said the same thing. Thanks guys!