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    1997 Sierra diesel - battery leads came off while driving - no electrics - what's fried?

    Day 2 - saga The truck was juiced on both batteries yesterday at noon. It was parked in front of my place. The friend tried starting it once more after he had parked it. It started. At 4 pm I went to start it but it would not start. The lights would come on but the engine would not engage...
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    1997 Sierra diesel - battery leads came off while driving - no electrics - what's fried?

    Problem solved. I had to juice up each battery individually so they could hold a sufficient charge to move the vehicle. That both leads had come off the battery terminals - the guy who got the truck going said it was quite likely I had tightened the nuts too tight - the bolts were old and rather...
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    1997 Sierra diesel - battery leads came off while driving - no electrics - what's fried?

    there is one click - lights on - then no engaging / wouldn't turn over. then if you tried it again - thirty seconds later - there was no click and no lights - no nothing - excuse the double negative thanks in advance
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    1997 Sierra diesel - battery leads came off while driving - no electrics - what's fried?

    1997 Half ton - Sierra - Diesel - Coming into work - down a long logging road - I was coming down the final hill and suddenly all the dashboard lights went out and I had limited control. Freewheeling down a hill. Very scary. Managed to stop and looked under the hood. The battery leads had come...
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