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11-17-2004, 09:17 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Modesto, CA
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Battery voltage draw FIXED!!! K.I.S.S.!!!
So I called up a good friend of mine, who works at the local Auto Electric shop. I asked him "This may sound crazy, but my alternator is draining my battery, does that sound right?" First words out of his mouth "Is the 12v+ constant on the #2, and the switched 12v+ on the #1 wire?" "Uhh, I recently put on a new plug, let me check....NO!! THANKS MAN!!!" "No problem bro"
I can't beleive something THAT easy was the fix!! Makes me mad I rewired my truck...but I guess I did good, cuz all those splices looked like trash anyway. In all sorts, I'm good to go now! I told you guys, when there's a problem with my truck, it's 9 times outta 10 CAUSED by me (or the me before me; my dad) 
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11-17-2004, 11:31 PM
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Workaholic
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Location: Katy, TX
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11-18-2004, 12:50 AM
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Location: Modesto, CA
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Haha, I DIDN'T touch any wires...the plug literally disintegrated when I touched it, so I put a new one on...guess I flipped the wires inadvertantly. Yeah, you and me both!
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11-18-2004, 01:16 AM
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Workaholic
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Location: Katy, TX
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 Yesterday I drove mine at night for the first time in a quite a while and the headlights and dashlights flicker badly going down the road but not at idle 
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11-18-2004, 01:20 AM
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11-18-2004, 01:27 AM
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Workaholic
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BTW, the temp and volt gage needles shake like mad when this happens--could be a cluster/circuit problem? |
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11-18-2004, 02:04 AM
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Gentleman Jim Driver
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Poulsbo, WA
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Sounds like a bad ground...
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11-18-2004, 12:29 PM
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11-18-2004, 01:05 PM
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Right turn Clyde
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
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I would get some terminal electric contact cleaner and clean up the connection. Where the headlight and the connector are. Take the wires out of the plastic connector, use a small wire brush and the cleaner to get all the corrosion off. Put it back together. I did this and it helped a lot. I would just randomly go out or constantly blow the low beam light on the driver side. That fixed pretty good and the light was a little brighter.
That may not fix your problem but Im sure it wouldn't hurt to try it.
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