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G Guest
I have a '71 #1586 that I've owned since 1984. I have put 6 batteries in the car since I've owned it. It only gets driven about 300 miles a year...unless I completely disconect the battery after I drive it...in about 2-3 weeks the battery is so dead it won't even light the interior light. I had it at a shop here in town for 2 days and they say there is no more draw on the battery than a digital clock would pull yet this car eats batteries...can't find a short and have run out of ideas. They will go dead unless you unhook BOTH terminals.
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Buzz
Mechanicsville Va.
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bosswrenchbosswrenchMember
I'm partial to the "Battery Tender", a load-sensing trickle-charger, on both the Pantera and my bikes. You probably have a minor short somewhere since you say the ground wire must also be disconnected. I'd get a good VOM and start disconnecting wires or fuses until I got one to spark when I pulled it, then begin trouble-shooting there.
R rtaspl (Guest)
get a dig. volt meter, unhook the pos side of the batt. conect the curcut with the meter (on DC amp's). should read under 0.05 if not some thing is staying on. you should only have to unhook pos or neg as the batt can not complet a curcut. the Ohm load of the wire can run a batt down after a long draw. also if a batt get's to 9 volt's it is 90% dead and will only charge up to full around 3 times. dead dead dead and it may never be the same again (trash) also get a gas-mat deep cycle batt you can charge and dis-charge thay kind of batt more often
EC Ed Champagne (Guest)
Like you, I only drive a couple hundred miles per year. I went thru many batteries before I bought a trickle charger and then spent a little more for one of the threaded disconnectors. Since then, I've had years of life out of batteries if I remember to unscrew the disconnect.
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