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Old 12-22-2009, 03:31 PM
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Re: dead battery.. help

Charge up the battery, and install it, but leave the negative terminal disconnected.

Get a 12-volt test light, and connect one end to the neg. terminal and the other to the neg. battery cable. Now, with all doors closed and all lights off, no key in ignition, the test light should not light up. If it does, you have a short. Try removing all fuses and relays, one at a time, until the light goes out. Then you have isolated the bad circuit.

If this does not work, you may have a bad starter motor solenoid. Try disconnecting the starter cable and test again.
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