[s-cars] Battery going dead...rear windows dont work.

[Kent McLean]

"Nick Stuart" <baredok at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone know if the power going to the rear windows can be disconnected
> with out snipping anything? 

You could pull off the interior door panel and unplug the connector 
to the regulator motor, but unless that was the problem, you may 
still have the short causing the drain of the battery.

Here is something I just wrote up for someone on the V8 list, to help
them find a drain on their battery.  (There must be a lot of this going 
around, like the flu.)

In a nutshell, you'll have to chase down the drain. Remove the positive
cable from the battery, then place an ammeter between the battery's 
positive post and the end of the cable.  (If you don't have one, you can 
pick up a Volt-Ohm-Milliammeter (VOM or multimeter) for cheap at 
Radio Shack or Sears for $10-20; more if you want to get fancy).

The meter should show a slight value (about 0.05 amps) due to
keeping the radio memory alive. Anything above that (like 1.5a)
indicates a drain.  One by one, remove fuses from the fuse box until 
the drain goes away.  That isolates the circuit causing the drain.  Put 
the fuses back in, and start checking the items that are protected by 
the telltale fuse.  For example, you may find that removing the fuse for 
the trunk light kills the drain.  You then discover the trunk light stays 
on when the truck lid is closed, caused by a faulty switch. Replace the 
switch, and the battery drain problem goes away.  Of course, your 
problem probably won't be that simple. :)

HTH,
Kent
'94 100 S Avant
'89 200 TQ, "Bad Puppy" has a new home