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Brand new battery will not take a charge and is toast. Some thing evidently shorted it out to the point it is ruined. I not sure if NAPA will take it back.
I checked the battery voltages: Old (front) battery was 12.51 volts; the new back battery was only 5.5 volts. I do not know what drove the new battery's voltage down so much. The fusible link that's fed from the back battery and goes across the top of the fire wall looks as though it may be...
PS: The resister on my M1009 has been by-passed earlier because it had failed, resulting in 24v going to the glow plug relay and burning out my glow plugs.
Day 1, replaced 1 battery with a new one and CUCV started up ran & drove. Day 2, engine would not crank at all and electrical smelling smoke appeared from under the hood. Upon visual inspection I did not see anything wrong with the wiring & the glow plug relay was not hot. Puzzled as to why it...
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