Is this a first?
make shure all power drains are off (remove dome light ect) remove the neg batt cable, place a test light between the neg cable & post if the light lights you have a drain/short go to the fuse block & remove fuses till the light goes out. when you pull a fuse & the light goes out you know thats the circut that has the problem...
good luck..
well when I first got mine the same was happening i found the black out lights were staying on . I woud look for some thing simple first :heater motor , glow plugs relay ,dash light ,something like that.
also just thought bad battery. if one is bad it will kill the other
first off thanks to all who are trying....
no dome light in my kuk-vee
I tried the fuse trick with no results....
blackout lights work as normal, no lights on while key is off, or otherwise
The alt guage does not go off when key is turned off.......I wired a switch just before guage to prevent it from draining batt....but batts still drain, there's still an arc when last batt cable is connected. Alt 1 is not origanol to truck, problem is. Alt 2 is brand new, and when it was replaced.....for about the first 5 turns of the key it worked properly...then it just wouldn't go off with a turn of the key.
I haven't yet had the truck go all the way dead, it will turn over slow and the guage reads less than half(cant remember colors) but it will crank and start...I haven't had the truck long enough, and I use it atleast every other day so I really cant say how long it might take to completely drain it, maybe a week or so. My concern is with the cold weather coming I know these things have a way of popping up at the worst possible time....what should I do???
