unek87

ok heres the deal i've searched for the past couple hours . looking at other peoples problems and so on. i put the motor into my new shell bout 2 months ago started and everything after a lil troubleshooting now its ran all the way up til about 2 days ago i've had it in the garage this whole time and i pull it out bout every day or so when i work on it (body,interior,so on) well the battery i guess went dead for some reason and so i charged it for a day just to make sure . well it started just fine after that ,that was yesterday. now i go out to the garage today to pull it out and it wont start . but the battery hold its charge from what the guage says. now it has this stupid alarm thats wired up all boot leg (under my dash is a spider web of colors ) from the last owner so it has this push botton **** under there to. and the thing used to beep ALL THE TIME when i first got it running so i cut the alarm horn thing under the hood and even then it was fine i just had to push the botton like usaul. i've checked fuses, ive replaced battery wires before this happened so i its not that cause it started i did put a radio in and it did start. starter works cause i hooked it up to the battery charger also to see if the shaft moved it did. all i can think of is its that damn alarm or something . please help thanks in advance

Kenteth

sounds ghetto rigged. Rip all that **** out and get a copy of the fsm to start fixing the wires back together

unek87

i know i thought bout that i'm just a lil scared to go in there and start hacking away i mean i have my parts car for the dash harness but no body likes to go there . "ICEMARK" your the guru of the electic stuff. you out there?

unek87

ok i double checked every thing. do u guys think it may be my alt. cause thats the other thing i was thinking

Kenteth

Alt wouldn't keep the car from starting. It would cause the battery to not reacharge however. If you take your car to sears or someplace, they can run a parasistic drain test. Basicaly it shows how much amperage your car is using just being off. It should be 0.. well. .0001 or so I suppose. Then you start pulling fuses until the drain isn't detected, and you know what circuit has the problem.

You can do this at home for free if you have a multimeter. Remove the posetive battery cable and put one multimeter terminal on the + battery terminal, and the other hold to the + battery cable. Now all eletricity flow is flowing through the battery. Most multimeters are rated at ten amps, so if you try to do anything stupid liek starting your car or bumping your stereo, you'll fry the multimeter.

Anyhow, once you've got the terminals set up, check for amperage. If there a significant amount, start pulling fuses until it drops.