Dead short

[daredevil]

Thanks and good luck Ron.

 

[383man]

Actually you have a draw not a short from what I read. A short will blow a fuse or fuse link or burn wires which is bad. Yours sounds like it drains the battery with the key off. The best way to test this is with a digital ampmeter. It needs to be less then 50 milliamps. No guessing like this and you just start unhooking fuses and see if the draw goes away. Also unhook the alternator output terminal. If you have all the fuses out and the alt unhooked and still have a draw then you have to check any other circuits that are hot at all times. Course if it drops when you unhook a fuse then thats the circuit you need to check. Good luck , Ron

 

[Revhendo]

Could be a Homotron.
What's a Homotron you ask?
Well you know what a Proton is, right?
And a Neutron?

Well, a Homotron is a queer electron that goes around blowing fuses......

 

[darkhorse]

Could be a Homotron.
What's a Homotron you ask?
Well you know what a Proton is, right?
And a Neutron?

Well, a Homotron is a queer electron that goes around blowing fuses......

LMAO this made my morning

 

[Ron 73]

Dark horse i am doing just that and again yesterday... I keep finding previous repairs that im repairing.. allbeit the way i think it should have been done, you know, real connectors, grommets that kind of stuff, not wrapped around wiring with electrical tape holding them on, so i get off fixing these things so i can get back to finding my problem but if things work the way i expect my problem may be found when i repair all the former owners repairs.. heck maybe some of my own who knows. Thanks.

 

[Ron 73]

First i thank you all for the help, to make this short, its fixed but cant tell you which one out of the mess i had. I still have a couple things left im not happy with and need to put it together right. I put the old battery in and continued finding things it could have been and fixed them, one in particular i still have to fix is the switch to the fuel pump, unhooked for the time being, its wired directly to the battery and switch with no fuse anywhere in between, wires wrapped around the screws not even tighten down wrapped and taped. Im not going to list all the things ive changed but i guess one of them was doing it. i would start to track down one wire and find something like this to fix, im really glad this happened, if not i might not have even known all thats been messed up until a fire. Thanks again.

 

[Propwash]

Glad to hear you got it worked out Ron...Shall we start calling you "sparky" now?

 

[Ron 73]

Cant Will, thats what i call the guy whose work im repairing.

 

[Propwash]

Shucks.......Captain Thunderbolt?

 

[Ron 73]

Thunderbolt eh....