Fellas, I replaced the battery and terminal connectors and wired in a push button to start. Now i have a problem somewhere between the alternator and battery. O'Reily said i needed an alternator, so i replaced to no avail. I also replaced all of the fuses minus the horn, window, and turn signal. I can jump start the truck and it'll stay running, but battery slowly drains to nothing. I put the old alternator back in and got my $160 back. My initial thought was a fuse or something I did with the push button, I unhooked anything that was not as it was before. Any thoughts?

 

What year truck? If I recall, if its a 92 or 93 then the computer controls the alt, and a/c as well. If its earlier, then you have an external voltage reg but if that goes bad it usually over charges...

 

It's a '93. Scratchin my head since everything worked fine before the new terminal conecters and push switch. Think maybe, this burned up the computer?

 

If you unhook what you installed, is it all ok? Everything back to normal ?

 

Nope, the only additional thing I installed was the push button starter switch and once I realized the problem (couple hrs), I unhooked. Problem still exisits. Thought i might have blown a fuse, replaced all but a couple.

I cut back main positive wire to make sure it was clean copper.

Put a multimeter on battery once jumped and drops 0.01 V about every 20 sec.

Blinkers will not work, W wipers wont work, nothing electrical works except interior dome light and dims with battery drop.

I was hoping there was a big fuse somewhere other than the box under the steering column. Some $5 part that can easily be replaced, but may be wishful thinking.

 

Check your fusible links. The PCM is probably not even getting power right now.

 

wannadiesel, you were right about the fusable links; cannot believe after all the time i spent looking and scratchn i didn't see this.

Heres what i did but didn't fix the problem, but probably did it wrong. There were (2) 22ga fuse links going from (1) red wire to (2) red wires. I put a 5am 14ga fuse link inline.

There is a header of sorts that several link go into/outof. Do I need to try and tie back into this? Is this a part that I can simply replace all at once? Apologies, I'm not the greatest when it comes to this stuff.

 

It looks like more than one fried. Pull hard on all of them, if they are cooked they will separate. You've reconnected all the wires and it still doesn't work?

 

sorry for the delay, but thanks that is what it was. i'm rollin again.