theSHERPA
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To my dismay, I had to jumpstart the beast the other day when I went to move my truck in the driveway. Took some time, but finally got her fired up with the assistance of my Dodge 2500.
Fast forward to this morning. Came home from a 14 hour shift, and decided to see if the beast would start after letting her run for a while the day prior to charge up the batteries. Why I decided I had to test this while basically in a sleep coma, I don't know. At any rate, it would not turn over--just click. Mistake number 2 was attempting to jumpstart the truck while in a sleep coma. You guessed it--I hooked up the leads backwards on my jump box and tried to cracnk it up. Probably hooked up for 20-30 seconds--long enought to walk around and try to start, and then walk back around to see smoke coming from the leads of the jump box--the copper teeth were melting through the plastic. Quickly disconnected, said a few choice words my neighbors were probably not thrilled about, and hooked back up the right way. Wound up using the Dodge again to jump off both batteries.
So I finally got the batteries charged up enough to crank the engine over, and that's all it does. Crank and crank, but does not catch. I figure I fried something in the ignition system? It started 2 days ago, so it has to be my jumpstart abortion that killed it. Can anyone give me any helpful tips on what solenoids or fuses I need to check to get her started again. I am not even sure how to start troubleshooting this epic mistake.
Lesson learned--after a 10 hour shift and 4 hours of overtime, just go home and go to sleep. Do not attempt to do anything that requires any amount of thinking or skill.
Fast forward to this morning. Came home from a 14 hour shift, and decided to see if the beast would start after letting her run for a while the day prior to charge up the batteries. Why I decided I had to test this while basically in a sleep coma, I don't know. At any rate, it would not turn over--just click. Mistake number 2 was attempting to jumpstart the truck while in a sleep coma. You guessed it--I hooked up the leads backwards on my jump box and tried to cracnk it up. Probably hooked up for 20-30 seconds--long enought to walk around and try to start, and then walk back around to see smoke coming from the leads of the jump box--the copper teeth were melting through the plastic. Quickly disconnected, said a few choice words my neighbors were probably not thrilled about, and hooked back up the right way. Wound up using the Dodge again to jump off both batteries.
So I finally got the batteries charged up enough to crank the engine over, and that's all it does. Crank and crank, but does not catch. I figure I fried something in the ignition system? It started 2 days ago, so it has to be my jumpstart abortion that killed it. Can anyone give me any helpful tips on what solenoids or fuses I need to check to get her started again. I am not even sure how to start troubleshooting this epic mistake.
Lesson learned--after a 10 hour shift and 4 hours of overtime, just go home and go to sleep. Do not attempt to do anything that requires any amount of thinking or skill.