starting and fuel pump issue
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Take the starter out, sit it on the ground, clip the neg jumper cable to the mounting ear of the starter, and the neg of the battery. Take the pos cable and hook it to the battery +, and then touch the other end of the pos cable to the large terminal on the starter. You will probably need to put your foot on the starter when testing to keep it from jumping around if it works.
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If you hook the heavy negative battery cable to the frame only, I can guarantee it will not crank over for very long if it all, and you might even get some smoke out of the deal.
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From: Charles Town, W bygod Va
If you did the test in post 2 and the light did not come on, you don't have a draw. If your battery voltage drops to 3.5v when you try to crank it you either have a bad battery (likely) or your starter is drawing a LOT of current (not likely). Did you try jump starting the truck with a GOOD set of jumper cables? Ths small cheapies wont usually carry enough current to start if your battery is bad. Sounds to me like you have a bad battery though.
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If you did the test in post 2 and the light did not come on, you don't have a draw. If your battery voltage drops to 3.5v when you try to crank it you either have a bad battery (likely) or your starter is drawing a LOT of current (not likely). Did you try jump starting the truck with a GOOD set of jumper cables? Ths small cheapies wont usually carry enough current to start if your battery is bad. Sounds to me like you have a bad battery though.
Im steering away from a bad battery because of what happened above.
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From: Charles Town, W bygod Va
I'd confirm the battery voltage thing. What's the voltage with key off. How about when trying to crank. make sure you check it on the battery terminal itself, not the cable. If it drops to 3.5 like it did before it HAS to be a battery or MAJOR starter circuit draw, maybe the starter cable shorted to frame or engine block or wired wrong