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To: waterhill

A lot of the answers are good here but I like the clip ammeter idea where you place it around the negative battery cable to see if there is a huge draw. I worked for Advance Auto Parts for a few years and back in 2012, someone brought in a 1980 Cadillac and I checked it out and he was drawing 23 amps with everything off. I’d say there is a short somewhere, electrical problems can be tough. I once had a 1994 Ford Explorer where mu taillights didn’t work and the whole system needed rewired because they could not find where the short was. I was $800 poorer.


40 posted on 03/22/2015 3:59:42 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (Mom I miss you! (8-20-1938 to 11-18-2013) Cancer sucks)
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To: Nowhere Man
I checked it out and he was drawing 23 amps with everything off.

Was there a penny in the fuse box?

52 posted on 03/22/2015 4:10:07 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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Instead of spending $800 to rewire, I would have wired in a SPST cutoff switch to the battery.


95 posted on 03/22/2015 8:49:14 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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