smokin69
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Batterys went dead in my truck today so I was having my sister jump it and she put the cables on backward on my truck and now no lights or anything works. What do I check first?
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forcefed
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Did you go through your fuse blocks? Check all your fuses with a meter. When you hooked up the cables the right way to jump it does anything work then? If not your batteries might be shot now. They will have a internal meltdown when hooked up like that. I'm not sure what to say else to check. I've never had to deal with that yet.
smokin69
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Well they werent hooked up, just tapped on it and it made a HUGE and loud spark so she dropped them. Ill go look at fuses. I dont have a meter to use. It was on the driverside battery and it was kind of crappy anyways. I just need to get it running because it's getting picked up monday. Sold it for $2,500 without rims and tires, and other non essential mods I made.
check the fusible links at the start relay near the battery.
smokin69
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Well I went out and left my driver side door open to see when the light kicked on to see what I had done worked and I checked the cables and as soon as I moved the ground everything kicked back on. I cleaned all the connections and she starts like a champ now.
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It is possible that the big shower of sparks were coming from that loose ground arcing, instead of sister having things backwards.
smokin69
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Well she had the negative side of the cable still attached to the positive side of the battery when I got over so Im positive thats what happened.
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