DieselGrl
01-03-2010, 04:07 PM
This is the first time I've had to work on this truck, mine is a Diesel (Chevy) so I am hoping you guys can help me identify what is wrong with my gf's truck.
Here is it's history-
She bought it a year ago at an auction from Washington State University. It was used as part of their Landscaping/Maintenance fleet. It has only 56k miles, and she has only put about 1000 on it, so we don't use it alot.
When she looked at it, the battery was dead (Optima). They charged it and everything appeared to be ok. We drove it home (330 miles) and found that if it sat for more than a day or so the battery was dead. It checked out bad so we put a new battery in it last summer. We've used the truck a few times here and there with no issue over the last several months, maybe averaging once monthly.
Yesterday we went to use it and it was so dead it was like there was no battery connected.
I figure there is either a short somewhere or a bad part draining the electrical system. I connected up the charger and heard a clicking sound from the rear, I believe it is in the Fuel Pump assy somewhere. I am suspecting this is an ongoing problem we just hadn't discovered yet and is possibly very intermittent.
Does anyone know if there is a way to identify what the culprit is without dropping the fuel tank? I'm not excited about trying to heat the shop and tear the truck completely apart ... :(
Here is it's history-
She bought it a year ago at an auction from Washington State University. It was used as part of their Landscaping/Maintenance fleet. It has only 56k miles, and she has only put about 1000 on it, so we don't use it alot.
When she looked at it, the battery was dead (Optima). They charged it and everything appeared to be ok. We drove it home (330 miles) and found that if it sat for more than a day or so the battery was dead. It checked out bad so we put a new battery in it last summer. We've used the truck a few times here and there with no issue over the last several months, maybe averaging once monthly.
Yesterday we went to use it and it was so dead it was like there was no battery connected.
I figure there is either a short somewhere or a bad part draining the electrical system. I connected up the charger and heard a clicking sound from the rear, I believe it is in the Fuel Pump assy somewhere. I am suspecting this is an ongoing problem we just hadn't discovered yet and is possibly very intermittent.
Does anyone know if there is a way to identify what the culprit is without dropping the fuel tank? I'm not excited about trying to heat the shop and tear the truck completely apart ... :(