Losing hope

I’ve talked about my truck a few times here. From plans on lowering the truck, supercharging it until I found out the truck has a 5.0 not a 5.7, and this huge electrical issue I’m dealing with. I’m still at the process of registering the truck, haven’t had time to do that. What’s making me lose hope on this truck is the battery issue I’m having. The truck would end up with a dead battery every morning if I don’t turn it on once a day. I thought changing the battery would fix the issue because the battery it had was the wrong one and wasn’t giving enough voltage so we got the correct battery. Didn’t fix the issue. We thought the terminals were the problem and didn’t have a proper ground so we fix that too. Didn’t work. I checked with autozone to see if they can test the alternator and they said that it was perfectly fine somehow. I don’t have any lights kept on in this truck and tried to google what the problem could be and couldn’t figure anything out. I’m not sure what to do with this truck. I dubbed it the farm truck and this farm truck is cursed. Now it’s doing worst. Hey that rhymed. I literally have to keep the truck running for 2 hours or else it’ll die. I start my new job soon and planned to use the farm truck to get me to work and back home but for me to run this truck for 2 hours is just too much to deal with. I can’t rely on it to take me home or anywhere for that matter. I don’t know what to do with this truck. I’m glad it was my first V8 but for it to have this problem I’d rather not struggle with it any longer. So I’m going to register the truck. Keep it a little while longer and try to look into it more about the battery issue. If no progress has been made than I may sell it. I know my uncle doesn’t want me to sell it but I can’t rely on this truck. So I’ll either sell it or give it to my uncle. If anyone’s interested I’ll keep you in mind. Though this truck is located in Los Angeles so there’s that.

Maybe take it to a mechanic?

Do you have a multimeter? If so, have you checked all the fuses for parasitic draw when the key is off? You should be able to determine which circuit is causing problems fairly easily.

An uncommon thing I've seen a few times is the diode in the alternator doesn't turn off and drains the battery. Seen it I think 3 times. Dunno if that'll help you, but it's a possibility.

There is a parasitic draw somewhere. Do you have any stereo equipment, alarms, or such? Before you throw the baby out with the bath water, please find the issue. Is the alternator charging....how many volts? You can disconnect the battery after you get where you're going until you figure it out. Someone with a blackbelt in 'electric voodoo' will chime in, hopefully soon.

See what happens when you take ten minutes to make a post? Lol.

Knuckle Dragger said:

Maybe take it to a mechanic?

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Took it to a mechanic, couldn’t find the issue either

df2x4 said:

Do you have a multimeter? If so, have you checked all the fuses for parasitic draw when the key is off? You should be able to determine which circuit is causing problems fairly easily.

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I did use a multimeter a while back when I changed the battery. The fuses were doing fine.

shovelbill said:

There is a parasitic draw somewhere. Do you have any stereo equipment, alarms, or such? Before you throw the baby out with the bath water, please find the issue. Is the alternator charging....how many volts? You can disconnect the battery after you get where you're going until you figure it out. Someone with a blackbelt in 'electric voodoo' will chime in, hopefully soon.

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The alarm system is a little wonky but it’s off, stereo system doesn’t even work. And I would have to take a ratchet set and remove all the bolts connected to the terminals by removing the air box then putting back the air box. Then the cycle continues. Like I said I’ll try to figure it out more but it ain’t looking too well.

Dravec said:

An uncommon thing I've seen a few times is the diode in the alternator doesn't turn off and drains the battery. Seen it I think 3 times. Dunno if that'll help you, but it's a possibility.

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I’ll take a look on that, haven’t thought of it.