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    parasitic drain on my lbody

    anyone have any advice finding a drain on my 87 l-body?car sitd for 2 days and battery is dead!please,any help in diagnosing this prob wld b greatly appreciated!!

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    Re: parasitic drain on my lbody

    use ammeter across fuses one at a time to determine which system/circuit it's in.

    isolate by unplugging furthest away components and working back to fuses/distribution.

    this should get you down to "this section for definite" whereupon you use mulitmeter to ID any crosses, and visually inspect as much as possible, and either separate stuff and tape it up, or replace wiring....

    You're not done... if it was a wire gone hot and hotwired into another... that circuit has too much load for some strange reason under certain conditions, go find that.

    be very methodical, do not dot around all over the place... hound it down.
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    Re: parasitic drain on my lbody

    horn relay was shorted internally!got er' fixed!thanks!

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    Re: parasitic drain on my lbody

    when I 1st read the title, my 1st thought was horn. I had taken apart the steering column on my daytona and didn't get the horn mechanism replaced properly. But since I had no horns because they had to go for the FMIC I didn't know it was permanently on. After sitting over the weekend the car wouldn't start monday morning. Got a new battery and drove it all week. Next weekend car sat and next monday morning same thing. Finally tracked it down to the horn relay being way hot. That's when it dawned on me that the horn was on.

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    Re: parasitic drain on my lbody

    I got chewed out by some old lady from the 3rd floor balcony at the apartment complex I used to live at. At some point during the night, my horn shorted and it honked all night until the battery was dead.

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    Re: parasitic drain on my lbody

    Quote Originally Posted by MiniMopar View Post
    I got chewed out by some old lady from the 3rd floor balcony at the apartment complex I used to live at. At some point during the night, my horn shorted and it honked all night until the battery was dead.
    Meh atleast it wasnt a pacifica air horn LOL

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    Re: parasitic drain on my lbody

    Did she call you a horny bastard?

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