Elusive Electrical Problem R33

Post by **Notorious-Sky** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 3:31 pm

Hello all.

I am new here my name is Todd and I just found out about this awesome site at the SCO nights meet in Chandler AZ this past weekend.

I have a 1996 (I think) R33 RB25 GTST - since I have had it the battery would completely drain about every two weeks without at least an hour or so drive (car not street legal so little hard to drive continuous for an hour or so). More recently if I do not run the car for at least 25-30 minutes every other day dead battery. Have had everything I know to have checked, checked problem persists. Anyone else have anything similar happen ?

Appreciate any pointers - look forward to talking with all of you quite often!

PeaceTodster

Post by **AZhitman** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 6:00 pm

Hey Todd - It's Greg.

I'm gonna call in some "heavy fire" on this question... we'll getcha squared away.

Post by **DAEDALUS** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:09 pm

Have you tried pulling every single fuse on it, and then hooking up a current meter between the battery and the cable? Should read 0 amps. Then put 1 fuse back at a time until you find the circuit that's causing a large drain. From there you have to trace wiring with the current meter.

Post by **C-Kwik** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 7:28 pm

Give us some history about your battery. How long have you had it? What kind? How many times, if any, has it been drained completely before this started to occur?

Post by **Dano** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:09 pm

Todd, this is Dan, I was with Greg when we met you. I would do exactly what DAEDALUS said. That's the easiest way to track down a parasitic drain. So I recommend starting there, and coming back to us with the results. Are you familiar with the use of an Amp-meter?

-Dan

Post by **evildky** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 5:59 am

could aslo be a voltage regulator issue, if you remove the alternator (internally regulated) and take it to autozone or discount auto or any number of chain stores they can test it and tell you if it is a problem of course your gonna need to know what the us interchange would be so they can test it properly

Post by **Notorious-Sky** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 5:14 pm

Thanks for all the suggestions - am going to try the fuse pulling this weekend and testing each individual circuit - sorry for the delay in getting back - i have been out of town on business for several weeks. Will advise as soon as I test. Thanks again.

PeaceTodster

Elusive Electrical Problem R33

Elusive Electrical Problem R33

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