Uncle Gump
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- Ottawa IL
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- 2006/1986
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- Ranger/BroncoII
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- 4.0L SOHC/2.9L
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- 4WD
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This will make the third year in a row that I will likely have a bad battery. My truck has sat for 4 or 5 days (this is consistent with the past years also) and I go to start it and the battery has degraded to the point it won't start the engine. This only happens after setting several days.
I put a quick charge on the battery and it fired up. Ran the truck until it reached operating temp... I checked the charging system with my fluke and it's at 14 volts. After shutdown... it will fire right up. I also did a parasitic draw test and it's 15mA.
Now it may start later or even tomorrow... but once it's does this... duration of sit time is shortened.
In fact... this I believe is the 4th battery in just about the same amount of years. The first battery I replaced was from Wally World. I warranteed with another wally world battery. When that one went bad... I bought one from the local farm and fleet... and stepped up to the platinum 7 year battery. That got replaced with the same thing just about a year ago. Now I back to no starts.
I don't see how my truck is killing batteries... but maybe I'm missing something...
I put a quick charge on the battery and it fired up. Ran the truck until it reached operating temp... I checked the charging system with my fluke and it's at 14 volts. After shutdown... it will fire right up. I also did a parasitic draw test and it's 15mA.
Now it may start later or even tomorrow... but once it's does this... duration of sit time is shortened.
In fact... this I believe is the 4th battery in just about the same amount of years. The first battery I replaced was from Wally World. I warranteed with another wally world battery. When that one went bad... I bought one from the local farm and fleet... and stepped up to the platinum 7 year battery. That got replaced with the same thing just about a year ago. Now I back to no starts.
I don't see how my truck is killing batteries... but maybe I'm missing something...