bemmott
11-14-2003, 12:12
My new Dodge Hemi will be arriving next week and my beloved (and hated) 85 burb 6.2 will be given to a friend, but before it goes I have a problem that needs fixin'.
Last weekend, after sitting in the drive for about a week unstarted/driven, I got not so much as a glimmer of juice. Not a light on the dash, not a click on start, nothing. Both batteries are 2 year old Interstate 1000CCA's and have been perfect before this.
Now I thought I had a short somewhere that drained the batts because I had an odor of burn plastic in the cab for about a month but could not find anything. No blown fuses, everything worked. El stumpo grande.
Anyway - threw my charger on overnight and neither battery took a charge. Got 2 new (free) batts from my shop and the thing fired right off but showed a steady discharge of apx 8 amps on the ammeter. Ooops - not good. I assumed it was the short, or a bad alternator. Had it towed to my shop and lo - bad alternator it was.
But that still doesn't explain the odor of burnt plastic. Then I followed the wife while she drove and noticed that the driver side tail-light was noticeably dimmer than the pax side.
Anyone have any idea where the damned wire running to the tail lights runs to the back so I can check for a short? Getting a little cold here to check this crap, but I can't give it to my pilot buddy and have it die on him waiting for his return from the line.
:mad:
Last weekend, after sitting in the drive for about a week unstarted/driven, I got not so much as a glimmer of juice. Not a light on the dash, not a click on start, nothing. Both batteries are 2 year old Interstate 1000CCA's and have been perfect before this.
Now I thought I had a short somewhere that drained the batts because I had an odor of burn plastic in the cab for about a month but could not find anything. No blown fuses, everything worked. El stumpo grande.
Anyway - threw my charger on overnight and neither battery took a charge. Got 2 new (free) batts from my shop and the thing fired right off but showed a steady discharge of apx 8 amps on the ammeter. Ooops - not good. I assumed it was the short, or a bad alternator. Had it towed to my shop and lo - bad alternator it was.
But that still doesn't explain the odor of burnt plastic. Then I followed the wife while she drove and noticed that the driver side tail-light was noticeably dimmer than the pax side.
Anyone have any idea where the damned wire running to the tail lights runs to the back so I can check for a short? Getting a little cold here to check this crap, but I can't give it to my pilot buddy and have it die on him waiting for his return from the line.
:mad: