I know it's late, I hope everyone had a good day, if you don't celebrate Thanksgiving as a national holiday for whatever reason, I hope you had a good day anyway you see that, family, friends, work, etc....

U too....

It was wet, really wet here.
The ground is so saturated it has leaked into my daylight basement where my water service enters the house through the foundation, a small steady stream, that puddles on the concrete floor, arg.
I'll dig down come next summer and re-caulk that breach.

Have to work on my big truck, a 2005 Ford F-150 Super Crew.
It has a parasitic battery drain, darn it.
I am not real savvy with this stuff.
I already put a little switch on the battery negative where I just turn it off.
Have to pop the hood, and everything resets each time, but its better than having it drain out.

Anybody got any tips on these gremlins?    

hotprops wrote on 11/25/16 at 10:05:53:


No after market stuff.
Thus far I have found my alternator working as should.
Battery good.
Pulled the obvious fuses that might drain it while off, nothing.

Now I have noticed my right side passenger floor carpet/mat, seems to be always wet.
I use this truck for pulling my boat, and a few runs to the store, etc, but that s about it.
I thought it was from just getting into the cab wet, but jeez, not still wet after months....
Of interest too, this is where my main fuse panel is.
I started digging deeper, removing trim. I found a big wire bundle sitting in water in a channel that runs in the bottom floor jam, on the right hand front door....
I have read about leaks, this appears to be the culprit. If left unattended, I guess it has the capacity to fry the main fuse panel, etc.

I drilled a few holes through this channel and water gushed out, lots of water....
I will dry it out now and then continue to search out the leak.
This truck sits outside in the rain a lot here in the pacific northwest.

She runs great, I will just keep that switch on her until I get it all figgered out, HECK, I might just keep the switch on her anyway....
I wear a wrist watch for time, so I don't care what the clock says in the cab, nor do I listen to preset radio stations.....
Why do I need to run any power to her