'88 5000CS Quattro Electrical Gremlin - Requesting Diagnostic Help

[Burl Vibert]

Pat wrote:
>
> Robert
>
> My brother had the same problem with his 88 5000S wagon.
> The battery would always drain within a night.  I started removing
> fuses until reading on the amp meter I had hooked up to the battery dropped
> way down. It was the  radio fuse and etc. (4).  There was some
> one on the list that mentioned that sometimes the chime relay goes bad.
> I pulled out the relay and no more battery going dead. Did not effect
> anything except the warning chime.  You might want to try this relay.  It
> is on the Auxiliary fuse panel, second from left middle row( blue).
>
>

I'm trying to trace a similar problem.  It's probably just a bad
battery though as I checked the current draw and it appears to draw
about 0.8A for about 20 seconds or so after shutting off and then
drops to about 20mA after that so that sounds pretty normal.  Stupid
Crappy Tire battery is only a year old.

Burl Vibert
1987 5kcstq
1986 Ford F-250 (just dumped 1220kg of lathe and plaster out of it,
cool)
Kingston, Ontario