Best way to find a....

[DarkKnight]

Hey guy's Gal's,


I was woundering if and of you know a good way to find a bad short. Ive got one that will kill my battery in less then 24 hours. And it's also makeing my battery termanels HOT. well actualy just the positive term. Any help with this i would aprechaite a great deal. Where the good places to look for one, or a place i might not notice? Any how.

Thanks in Advance,
Dark



O yea i did the wiggle test, and no matter what circute i taped or wiggled it would beeep on me. dont know if that helps or not.

[gadget73]

Hook an interior light bulb in series with either the positive or negative. Unplug the hood light. Start removing fuses till the bulb goes out. If none of the fuses do it, start disconnecting things off the starter relay, then find out what the wire you disconnected operates. Something else you might want to look at, Fords have a bad ignition switch design. Change the ignition switch. Also, the alternators aren't so hot, and its possible for the diodes to fail internally. Unplug the alternator and see if the draw stops too. Just make sure that you don't have interior lights on, etc while doing the light bulb method, as any current draw will make it glow.

[DarkKnight]

Humm, :-? Ok, im not wanting to sound like a big newb but... how do i hook an interior light bulb in series with either the positive or negative? As for the hood light im one step ahead there, i yoinked that bad boy the other day thinking it was my short )


Any how thanks for the help, to this Novice.
Dark

[DarkKnight]

Ok, i think i got this fig. out, so what i can do is get like a test light and hook it up to the negative termanel. And if the lightson go an pull fuses untill it turns off that is whille the key is off.

Is this right?

Thanks,
Dark



: Edit : Eh, never mind that didnt do squat (HAHA) i did find a wire that was hot it was a blue wire comeing from under neath the dash and it ran all the way to the trunk. i brought all of it back to the dash sniped the end of it that was bare to my eye. and put the tape around it. : End Edit :

[DarkKnight]

Ok another update. I took apart my dash - the speedo stuff due to i dont know anything about them. and i traced a bunch of wires. got ride of a bunch of extra wires. Speaker wires mostly for a amp thats not there.

Also i found one hot wire where it goes to i have no clue but i got it caped off preety good.

Also i replaced my Voltage regulator today, and to my surprise my surgeing stoped, and i finnaly got the ol box to do around 140 well u guys tell me, my speedo goes up to 85 and it was hitting the bottom side. no numbers Ha Ha. I dont have to good of breaks so i had to do this with a hill in mid so i didnt have to use my brakes/

Any how. My vic is comeing together rather niceley, and about time 2.

Thank's,
Dark

[turbo2256b]

Check and see if one of the bolts in front of the battery isnt sticking through one of the cells.

[DarkKnight]

I gave it a good look and cant find a punctare anywhere, Im hopeing it was either that wire or my voltage reg. I wont know untill a day passes and i still have a charge on my batt. :::::: Crosses finger's :::::

O and i tested my volts and it was within range so my alt. is supose to be good. ;-)

Any how thanks agine,
Dark

[Pimp Hard Or Bust]

by hot, did you mean hot to the touch?

[DarkKnight]

On the Battery termanel yes, it actualy got hot. to touch one time it would prob have left a burn mark if i woulda kept my hand on it any longer. :-/

So far though no prob's since i put the new volt reg on

[AOD]

i finnaly got the ol box to do around 140 well u guys tell me, my speedo goes up to 85 and it was hitting the bottom side. no numbers Ha Ha. I dont have to good of breaks so i had to do this with a hill in mid so i didnt have to use my brakes/

WTH? You don't have good brakes but you decided to go see how fast you could go?

Did you eat paint chips as a kid?

[DarkKnight]

Nope, ) I got two hills right down the road from me. one hill i go down the other i use to stop me i dont even use brakes/. )

[85MercPark]

Natural Selection should handle this one eventually...

[DarkKnight]

^_^???

[85MercPark]

Natural selection is simply the effect the natural world has on living things, selecting out living forms that can survive from those that can’t handle their environment and therefore perish.

[AOD]

Thanks for posting what I didn't want to say... lol

I do have my a-hole reputation to live up to though!