Hey Guys,
Working on a family member's '02 100 with 222k. With COVID the truck wasn't being driven every day and the battery died. It probably sat a week before I had a chance to look at it. Murphy paid a visit and once I got it charged up and running a fuel line blew
. Fixed that and got her going again. Alternator showed 15 volts. Put in a new battery and dash lit up like a Christmas tree w/ABS, BRAKE, TRAC, etc. Cycled a few times and this went away but then came back, so I went to road test and bam- blew a brake line 
. Too funny. So dropped in two new hard lines, bled everything up and thought we'd be good to go. The ABS and Brake and another light still come on when I drive (thinking speed sensor on one wheel), but the bigger problem - finally right - is that the battery dies overnight.
I've charged it up a few times and it still drains. Today I hooked up my ammeter and found a ~ -2.5 amp parasitic drain. I pulled every fuse and relay in the large fuse box under the hood but the amps remained at -2.5. I then pulled each fuse one by one from the kick panel fuse box and still no change -2.5 amps. The only two fuses I know of that I couldn't remove for fear of breaking them were the two main fuses connected directly to the positive battery terminal.
Working on a family member's '02 100 with 222k. With COVID the truck wasn't being driven every day and the battery died. It probably sat a week before I had a chance to look at it. Murphy paid a visit and once I got it charged up and running a fuel line blew
. Fixed that and got her going again. Alternator showed 15 volts. Put in a new battery and dash lit up like a Christmas tree w/ABS, BRAKE, TRAC, etc. Cycled a few times and this went away but then came back, so I went to road test and bam- blew a brake line . Too funny. So dropped in two new hard lines, bled everything up and thought we'd be good to go. The ABS and Brake and another light still come on when I drive (thinking speed sensor on one wheel), but the bigger problem - finally right - is that the battery dies overnight.I've charged it up a few times and it still drains. Today I hooked up my ammeter and found a ~ -2.5 amp parasitic drain. I pulled every fuse and relay in the large fuse box under the hood but the amps remained at -2.5. I then pulled each fuse one by one from the kick panel fuse box and still no change -2.5 amps. The only two fuses I know of that I couldn't remove for fear of breaking them were the two main fuses connected directly to the positive battery terminal.
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