With this drain I have again learned "never trust anything, and check ALL branches of a circuit". Hammered into my head enough times in tech schools was "just because it works, doesnąt mean it is correctly operating" jimt On 5/10/05 8:36 PM, "Loren Busch" <starwagen@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > RE: Battery Drain > I can almost beat that Jim (but not quite) > After the engine was replaced in my '85 the battery would go dead > overnight, but it was intermittent. > One item kept popping from the back of my mind. When I got the van > back from the shop that did the work, which included a new radiator, > the heat control was all the way to the left. I knew this could be a > problem with the heater since I had a bent heater control cable. I > dealt with the problem by disconnecting the battery if I was going to > be parked overnight. I was suspecting something shorting under the > dash, pushed around by the heater cable. On the night that I totaled > the '85, the battery had been fine for a week or two, no drain. (I > could hear a relay click under the drivers seat when connecting the > battery if the short was there). That night I had to turn on the > heater and pulled the battery for the event I was at. When I > connected it to leave, 'click', the short was there. > Ah ha, suspicions confirmed, now I know where to look under the dash > for the short, right around the area that the heater control cable > passed. But, the Westy was totalled on the way home. So I never had > the pleasure of looking for the problem and saying 'Eureka! I found > it!' |
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