g. Is it the wrong size battery and where do I start trouble shooting the electric.Gracias!
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New Battery and smoking wires
by Bobby73 » Sun Mar 13, 2016 10:50 am
Okay...newbie here! I installed a new Optima battery and these two connectors started g. Is it the wrong size battery and where do I start trouble shooting the electric.
Gracias!
Bobby
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g. Is it the wrong size battery and where do I start trouble shooting the electric.Gracias!
Bobby
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Re: New Battery and smoking wires
by Gunnibronco » Sun Mar 13, 2016 11:39 am
Moved to '4x4 tech'.
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Re: New Battery and smoking wires
by akaFrankCastle » Sun Mar 13, 2016 12:26 pm
You appear to have a wire missing from your starter solenoid. And it looks new. Did you recently replace that as well?
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Re: New Battery and smoking wires
by Bobby73 » Sun Mar 13, 2016 1:21 pm
New solenoid and took wire off to look at connectors, but was connect before.
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Re: New Battery and smoking wires
by Bobby73 » Sun Mar 13, 2016 1:23 pm
Ran after replacing solenoid and then battery died over winter.
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Re: New Battery and smoking wires
by Bobby73 » Sun Mar 13, 2016 1:30 pm
Looks like it was spliced and then silicon caulked??
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Re: New Battery and smoking wires
by Digger » Mon Mar 14, 2016 3:45 pm
Bobby73 wrote:Okay...newbie here! I installed a new Optima battery and these two connectors started
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Battery size would not cause this issue. I would carefully look at every wire around the battery. You likely disturbed something or incorrectly reattached a wire. The other possibility is that something died or shorted out with the last battery and now that you have a fresh one, it is letting the magic smoke out.
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Re: New Battery and smoking wires
by Bobby73 » Tue Mar 15, 2016 8:08 pm
Okay...fixing loose connections and found fusible link was cooked
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Re: New Battery and smoking wires
by Bobby73 » Sun Mar 27, 2016 8:43 pm
Okay...after a bunch of soldered connections and a new solenoid I finally have fixed the problem. Thanks guys.
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Re: New Battery and smoking wires
by Kinder » Mon Mar 28, 2016 7:57 am
Thumbs up!
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