Switch1625
NAXJA Forum User
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- San Diego
Kinda long story so im gonna try to make it quick.
I was offroading, my optima came loose i guess and moved forward so it was touching the radiator, and the part that was touching melted and burned up. I saw smoke coming from my wires, and a ton of smoke from my brakes.
Anyways i get it home, everything is dead as can be, i take an old battery with almost no juice left in it and put it in the jeep. The lights and everything worked, as well as cb, and stereo. Try to start it but not enough juice in battery.
Next day we go try to return the optima, but they said it wasnt the optimas fault, so im out a brand new 140 doller battery, and i go to kragen and get a 80 doller one. Get home, pop it in, and my voltage is almost in the red.
Drive to kragen to see if they can test my alternator. They hook up to it and they say, how old is this battery? I say 15 minutes or so. He says, the battery is completly dead. So they gave me a new one, and they said my charging system is okay.
Heres where it gets good (if your still reading, i thank you)
So whenever i use my blinker, the TEMP/VOLTAGE/OIL PRESSURE gauges move with the blinker. When the blinker blinks, they drop a bit, then when it stops its blink, it goes back up, over and over. When i turn the stereo on and also the blinker, stereo dies. My voltage is usualy in the red, on the low side, while im driving.
Last night i was goin home from work, had my dim *** lights on and everything. Im at a stop light, it turns green, as soon as i hit the gas, everything came back to life. Voltage was right in the middle, lights were bright as day, i was pretty excited. I come up to the next light, tap the breaks, everything dies back down to the old way. Voltage in the red, etc. Light turns green, everything comes back up, i put my blinker on, everything died again. And that is where we stand. It never came back to life after that. And by die i mean the voltage went into the red but motor still ran.
YOu guys have witnessed my longest post ever.
I checked all the fuses, but i have no idea what to do. I want to just bring it into firestone and get charged 1000 bucks or so.
What would you check?
I was offroading, my optima came loose i guess and moved forward so it was touching the radiator, and the part that was touching melted and burned up. I saw smoke coming from my wires, and a ton of smoke from my brakes.
Anyways i get it home, everything is dead as can be, i take an old battery with almost no juice left in it and put it in the jeep. The lights and everything worked, as well as cb, and stereo. Try to start it but not enough juice in battery.
Next day we go try to return the optima, but they said it wasnt the optimas fault, so im out a brand new 140 doller battery, and i go to kragen and get a 80 doller one. Get home, pop it in, and my voltage is almost in the red.
Drive to kragen to see if they can test my alternator. They hook up to it and they say, how old is this battery? I say 15 minutes or so. He says, the battery is completly dead. So they gave me a new one, and they said my charging system is okay.
Heres where it gets good (if your still reading, i thank you)
So whenever i use my blinker, the TEMP/VOLTAGE/OIL PRESSURE gauges move with the blinker. When the blinker blinks, they drop a bit, then when it stops its blink, it goes back up, over and over. When i turn the stereo on and also the blinker, stereo dies. My voltage is usualy in the red, on the low side, while im driving.
Last night i was goin home from work, had my dim *** lights on and everything. Im at a stop light, it turns green, as soon as i hit the gas, everything came back to life. Voltage was right in the middle, lights were bright as day, i was pretty excited. I come up to the next light, tap the breaks, everything dies back down to the old way. Voltage in the red, etc. Light turns green, everything comes back up, i put my blinker on, everything died again. And that is where we stand. It never came back to life after that. And by die i mean the voltage went into the red but motor still ran.
YOu guys have witnessed my longest post ever.
I checked all the fuses, but i have no idea what to do. I want to just bring it into firestone and get charged 1000 bucks or so.
What would you check?