No start, bad ground??
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No start, bad ground??
Last night I went to start my truck, I opened the door, the dome light came on full, turned the key and the lights came on, but as soon as the glow plug relay tripped, everything went dead, and then when I turned it off all the lights were very dim, I moved and pulled on the battery cables trying to see if it was a bad ground, but nothing changed, and then all of a sudden power came back, and I was able to start it. I got home and turned it off and when to restart to see if it would and same thing again, it's acting like a bad ground, has good cables, but not sure where the ground wires go.... Any ideas?
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Originally Posted by Pest007
well I don't think so because the truck started fine when it did finally work, it just happened when there was a big enough draw of amps to short out
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sounds like maybe you have a bad gpr. while it has power going to it for however long the pcm tells it due to eot and then once it shuts off your problem goes away. a new gpr is like 15 bucks at napa. i think the part # is gpr 109(not sure i have been gone for about 8 months). good luck
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Well I messed around with all the cables last night, and they all are very clean and have a solid connection to the block and to the starter, so I decided just to take off the cables from the battery and even tho it was relatively clean looking it turned out to be the pos wire on the drivers side to be the problem. I didn't have my little wire brush terminal cleaner on me, but I will clean it up today, I was able to start it though.
So even though it looks clean, make sure to clean your terminals if you see your voltage drop a little
So even though it looks clean, make sure to clean your terminals if you see your voltage drop a little
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Originally Posted by Pest007
So even though it looks clean, make sure to clean your terminals if you see your voltage drop a little
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