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Originally Posted by beejay42
Good to hear you got it started again-
I put my shiny renewed starter motor in today, turned it over a few times (without starting) and then.... Click.... Click.... Click...   
the new battery is flat. So it is out and I am going to give it a good 2-3 day charge.
I have half pulled off the dash and have wires everywhere trying to figure out the wiring for my windscreen washer, fix the manual EDIC choke/kill switch, and sort out a few other things.
Found out my priming pump is leaking- have to get a new one..
Also a bit bummed that one of my two new indicator lights I just got sent has a crooked mount- that cannot be fixed...
Got it from roodogs on ebay- so I have just contacted him to see if he can do anything about it (have already given positive feedback...)
Good Luck,
Hans. |
Hans,
I am absolutely no expert in things under the hood but from limited working on electrics in other areas and a vague memory of physics class, it is starting to sound like there is a load on your battery, something drawing it down, even though the vehicle is off and not running. This like the third new battery you've gone through. Maybe you want to take a look at anything the PO added to the car's basic electrical system or any re-wiring he did. Could be that something has been wired to get juice directly from the battery that should be getting juice only when the key is turned. Maybe you or somebody can go over the rig's electrics with a multimeter and see if anything is still hot and drawing juice even though the vehicle is off and parked.
Funny that you mentioned the dash. Only one of the guages on my instrument cluster work and according to the PO have ever worked in his time.They are also too small, poorly positioned and lit for me to read while driving or at night. I was thinking about upgrading the guages but CCOT wants you to send in the whole instrument cluster in with proof of authenticity which I simply dont have time to do. Instead I found a mudder who has made a new powder coated instrument cluster panel to fit the original dash cutout. It comes with a variety of guage configurations and finishes. You get the new panel from him, buy the guages and senders to fit your selected configuration and hook it all up. Gonna try to see if I can find someplace that sells the guages locally if not...more crap to have shipped in. Let me know how your indicator light problem gets resolved as I need a couple of those too.
