I've got a battery drain issue where by lunch time my car is tough to start but once cranked it's all good. I've looked over the battery cables and can't find anything wrong with them and I did a drain test by hooking my meter between the battery ground cable and terminal while pulling fuses and never saw any differences. I didn't do a detailed look but I did a quick glance around the engine bay and the wires looked good. I'll get in there this weekend and really look everything over. Also I've read something about the alternator diodes going bad and pulling power but I disconnected the alt entirely and no change. It is pulling about .144 amps, I'm assuming that's to high. What else can I do to find this?
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I forgot a bunch of info there. The battery is new, starter is new, alt is the stocker @ 170K miles, the battery grounds are clean, I pulled fuses from both fuse panels, and the meter I'm using is a regular Fluke with the probes.
Originally Posted by TLSheff
