Slow Crankover and more.

[SkipshotMJ]

Hey guys. Guess what?! Another problem! who would've guessed it haha.

So this time its a battery/ starting issue. When ever i start it these days it turns over REALLY, REALLY slow. At first i thought it was a bad alternator (mine squeaks a lot which has led to my trucks permanent nickname: Mr. Squeakers. :ack:), but i took it out and had it checked at the local auto-zone and they said it was good. So then i checked the battery, but they said it was 100% charged and it was fine. Here's where it gets weird. While I'm driving the voltmeter fluctuates a lot and its mostly in the low range and even in the red sometimes. Also, today after a 45 minute drive to play paintball i turned off my truck and then turned it back on and it started up fine. After i played i drove the same route back home and stopped at a gas station, filled up, and tried to start my truck and it wouldn't even turn over. I'm thinking this whole thing is related to each other. I was going to look at the wiring first thing tomorrow, but what do you guys think?

[CWLONGSHOT]

Remove the battery cables at the battery and completely clean and replace them. look close at your cables, all three of them, pos, Neg and charge. its likely not a bad idea to replace them with the largest ones available.

 

Sometime back I added a big alt, new battery and made up custom cables for these as well as my winch... MAN WHAT A DIFFERENCE!!!!

 

Take your time and look close, corrosion will cause resistance, resistance causes heat, heat kills batteries... DC electrical is like a water pipe, the bigger it is the better it flows. (With in reason.).

 

If you interested in what and how I did mine, its all in my build thread in my sig line.

 

CW

[cracker]

Hey guys. Guess what?! Another problem! who would've guessed it haha.

So this time its a battery/ starting issue. When ever i start it these days it turns over REALLY, REALLY slow. At first i thought it was a bad alternator (mine squeaks a lot which has led to my trucks permanent nickname: Mr. Squeakers. :ack:), but i took it out and had it checked at the local auto-zone and they said it was good. So then i checked the battery, but they said it was 100% charged and it was fine. Here's where it gets weird. While I'm driving the voltmeter fluctuates a lot and its mostly in the low range and even in the red sometimes. Also, today after a 45 minute drive to play paintball i turned off my truck and then turned it back on and it started up fine. After i played i drove the same route back home and stopped at a gas station, filled up, and tried to start my truck and it wouldn't even turn over. I'm thinking this whole thing is related to each other. I was going to look at the wiring first thing tomorrow, but what do you guys think?

 

Use the volt guage with a grain of salt ;)

 

They have been known to lie on more than one occasion.

[pilotblake]

I have Triumph TR6 that in high school was my project/DD. I could not for the longest time figure out why my car would turn over fast, then slow and eventually the battery would be dead after a few days :wall: . Redid alot of wiring, alternator, battery, and finally gave up and assumed it was a ghost in the system somewhere. The car was notorious in high school. It was a convertible, and the deal was I would give you a ride, but you had to push start me first. I never had a shortage of friends or people willing to give me a push so it was never a real big issue. Anyway, out of a whim I had bought another TR6 that had a big block sitting in it , and the guy had a new starter that was actully for the original inline 6. I had had several other starters go out on me, so I figured what the hell new starter, put it on. Point of the long story is that the starter was my issue. Never had an electrical issue since. I probably would have never figured it out otherwise. I really do not know why the battery would run down due to the starter, but who knows :dunno: