Battery losing charge after replacing alternator & battery

Old Dec 13, 2009 | 11:21 AM
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Battery losing charge after replacing alternator & battery

Just replaced the battery and alternator in my '99 F150 4x4. Ran fine for a couple of days, then the battery light came on, and the next morning it started fine ran about 100' and died again. The evening befor when I pulled into the driveway I heard a loud pop and the truck died, but then it started right back up. Anyone have any suggestions or solutions?
 
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Old Dec 13, 2009 | 11:44 AM
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Make sure your connections are good and clean... If you think something is draining the battery, some sort of short, put a multimeter on the battery, look at what it reads, than one by one, start pulling fuses... if the voltage jumps after you pull out a certain fuse, than trace whats circuited to that particular fuse you took out and check it out
 
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Old Dec 14, 2009 | 11:31 PM
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Originally Posted by kentaylor4
Just replaced the battery and alternator in my '99 F150 4x4. Ran fine for a couple of days, then the battery light came on, and the next morning it started fine ran about 100' and died again. The evening befor when I pulled into the driveway I heard a loud pop and the truck died, but then it started right back up. Anyone have any suggestions or solutions?
AHHHHHHH wish i got to earlier.... had the same problem your gona laugh if you got the same problem that i did..... on the passenger side you have a cover that your main electrical harness hides behind.... when you pull off that cover theres is a little fusebox that will be in that little cluster of crap.... open up that little fuse holder and check that fuse..... thats probably going to be your problem!!!!!!
 
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