Shorted shit! PLZ HELP

you dont happen to have
a friend with
a truck with
a fresh batt
that you could swap in ..??
that would tell ya if it was the battery or not.

well i hooked the battery up and with the key turned off. ignitions on. wtf? i think it melted the power wire somewhere. not sure whats going on. let me know if anyone can help?

Sounds like a fried relay or a wiring issue. I'd bet my lunch money that it didn't drain the battery.

do you have a DMM? start checking wires for power. do it on the batt as well. Anything 11+ will crank the truck, or atleast try for a few seconds.

i would check your ignition switch, wires coming out of it, alternator wires, alt itself, the battery, all fuses, and hook up the radar in a diff car. you may have fried it somehow.

Edited: 9/20/2007 12:26:27 PM by AVTekk

its not the battery, you cannot kill the charge in a battery by arcing it for a second. most likely you blew a fuse or fusable link somewhere in the truck, may be hard to find..

did u try to jump start it?

check the ground from the block to the body, iv'e fried that before.
check your fuses also, sometimes they pop when you do that.

maybe it could be the battery it maybe could be a a fuse under the hood i did it once didnt want to start my dash didnt work check the fuse thats says instrument culster maybe that could be it if not tell any of your buddys to give you a boost

!!! Well someone told me i fried my computer so i got a new one and same stuff. Its gettin power and the battery is good. the dash lights come on but there dim and the get brighter in 5 secs. im not sure if the truck has a fuseable link?

how are your battery terminals? if they are the aftermarket screw down ones, take them apart and just clean the connection. grounding out the positve lead to the body will only discharge the computers memory capacitors. mechanics do this all the time to clear trouble codes and reset computers with out having to wait the 30 mins.
Humor me and just clean the corosion from the terminals and make sure you have clean bare copper where the terminals connect to the batt cables..both positive and negative.