Battery won't stay charged
Thread Starter
Staging Lane
Joined: Apr 2012
Posts: 94
Likes: 0
Battery won't stay charged I have a 2001 Camaro SS with an LS1 and has an MS3 cam. As I drive, my battery constantly loses voltage and won't stay charged. I've put a new battery on it and new battery terminals, replace the alternator. I had both the alternator and battery tested and they were both good. I have a red top Optima battery and a reman alternator. I had to car tuned at a Dino shop and it was running fine until one day I was driving and it just slowly started losing voltage and then completely died. I can get a jump but you still won't charge the battery to 14.5V. The volt gauge reads about 11 V and then starts dropping. Sometimes random, it will hold 14 1/2 V for a while. Then randomly it will start dropping and then completely die. I had a sound system hooked up at one point and it never did this. The system was not in the car whenever the car first died on me. I have no idea, obviously, what the problem can be. Can someone please help me out?
Thanks in advance
Thanks in advance
did you check for
loose ground ? corrosion on b+ cable ? loose plug connection ? shorted excitor wire ? is power steering leaking on the connection ?
all of those can cause this issue. I've seen grounds become brittle and crack/break apart, I personally had an open excitor wire when my car wasn't charging and chassis ground are one of the most common items forgotten when everything is reinstalled.
loose ground ? corrosion on b+ cable ? loose plug connection ? shorted excitor wire ? is power steering leaking on the connection ?
all of those can cause this issue. I've seen grounds become brittle and crack/break apart, I personally had an open excitor wire when my car wasn't charging and chassis ground are one of the most common items forgotten when everything is reinstalled.
Thread Starter
Staging Lane
Joined: Apr 2012
Posts: 94
Likes: 0
I'm sorry but I do not know what the exciter wire is. I'll try to look it up real quick if no one has posted what or where it's at. And I have no idea which rounds to check honestly. I really don't want to take it to a shop tomorrow
