Hey everybody, Leo here. I just wanted to pick your brains for a few moments. It's been a roller coaster ride with this one for about a year now. Chasing electrical gremlins is not my favorite activity. I keep this one in storage. The people there are cool and used to let me run my battery tender off of an outlet outside the unit. Then the fire inspector came by, one day and said, "nuh nuh" to that. So the battery kept dying. I would just start her up once in a while, with no problems. Then she started crapping out unexpectedly. So I rooted around and couldn't find what was wrong. One day I had her out and started hearing an awful noise, as I was returning back to the storage place. It turned out to be this
So I soon replaced the whole thing with one of the 240amp alternators from the online store on TurboBuicks. She still gave me a hard time, so I replaced the Die Hard Gold with a Die Hard Platinum gel cell. Still no luck, then I discovered that the positive connector had sheared off in the old battery, so I replaced both connectors with heavy duty brass ones. They also have a secondary post, so I could run my aftermarket HID lights and another ground to the inner fender. Well I spent the last couple of days trying to find any loose ground connections and figuring out why my fuel pump keeps running after I turn the key off. She sat all fall and winter without being started, and sure enough, the battery was dead again. I tried a battery jumper pack and she still didn't want to start. So I plugged in the battery tender and left it overnight. I went today and she started up just fine. Here are some vids I made after I started, about ten minutes later, and after about a half hour. The only thing that concerns me now, is that I have to get on the gas to make her roll forward. Don't know if it's the brakes just being a little corroded from sitting around, or something more serious. Any help is appreciated. What do you all think?
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So I soon replaced the whole thing with one of the 240amp alternators from the online store on TurboBuicks. She still gave me a hard time, so I replaced the Die Hard Gold with a Die Hard Platinum gel cell. Still no luck, then I discovered that the positive connector had sheared off in the old battery, so I replaced both connectors with heavy duty brass ones. They also have a secondary post, so I could run my aftermarket HID lights and another ground to the inner fender. Well I spent the last couple of days trying to find any loose ground connections and figuring out why my fuel pump keeps running after I turn the key off. She sat all fall and winter without being started, and sure enough, the battery was dead again. I tried a battery jumper pack and she still didn't want to start. So I plugged in the battery tender and left it overnight. I went today and she started up just fine. Here are some vids I made after I started, about ten minutes later, and after about a half hour. The only thing that concerns me now, is that I have to get on the gas to make her roll forward. Don't know if it's the brakes just being a little corroded from sitting around, or something more serious. Any help is appreciated. What do you all think?
YouTube - DSC_0097.MOV
YouTube - DSC_0102.MOV
YouTube - DSC_0103.MOV