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Old Feb 8, 2007 | 08:18 AM
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batteries died after

Hi all
yesterdy i put in the headlight upgrade wireing harness and wired in my trans. temp gauge. and used the aih delete with the code eleminator wired from where the red wire was to ground. I was able to drive around 250 miles then my cd player quit, then the abs and the overdrive light started flashing, then i lost the speedo and tack. on the side of the raod i undid everything i had done still no start, got a jump and it started,, needed three more jumps to make it the last 10 miles home. i put it on a charger last night.

is there anything i could have done to my altenator with what i did?
any idea why i quit charging?
going to try and get it to boise today and have the alt checked this moring
thanks for the help you guys are great
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Old Feb 8, 2007 | 09:08 AM
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double check that head light harness and make sure something isn't shorted to ground draining the batts.
 
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Old Feb 8, 2007 | 09:42 AM
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thanks Alan
i will look
this sucks its raining, guess it could be worse, i wont cry anymore
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Old Feb 8, 2007 | 10:14 AM
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I looked and could see nothing that looked like it went to ground,
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Old Feb 8, 2007 | 11:00 AM
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the guage in the dash showes it is charging or at least it is not below the half way mark
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Old Feb 8, 2007 | 02:12 PM
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What voltage do you have at the batteries? Need a MINIMUM of 13.7 for a good charge and that's only marginal.
14.0 - 14.5 is best.
 
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Old Feb 8, 2007 | 06:42 PM
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the alt. was shot
just happened that it did it when i did all the other stuff, made me think I did something wrong
thanks for the help
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