Truck won't ground?... (I'm an idiot.)

[TheBeast_88K5]

Okay....

- 2 weeks ago, my truck ate a battery.
- Replaced the battery, truck ate that one, too.
- Jumped it, went to go wheeling.
- Upon arrival, the alternator burnt up....
- 15 min's later, it started again.
- Would run, but would completely kill the battery after 15min's.

Now....

- The old Alt. is still in....
- Battery is disconnected.
- I'm currently rewiring everything to go on my accessory battery.

- I removed my factory lightswitch.
- I connected the power for the HL selector switch, and the markers/sig's to my new switch.

Problem is....

I attached a wire the Tundra's positive Bat. terminal.
Connected that to the power side of the lights.... To test 'em.

Nothing.

Wtf?

Then I went around the WHOLE TRUCK, and couldn't get a solid ground ANYWHERE!

Why is my truck not grounding!?

 

[British Slave]

Okay....

- 2 weeks ago, my truck ate a battery.
- Replaced the battery, truck ate that one, too.
- Jumped it, went to go wheeling.
- Upon arrival, the alternator burnt up....
- 15 min's later, it started again.
- Would run, but would completely kill the battery after 15min's.

Now....

- The old Alt. is still in....
- Battery is disconnected. Maybe the ground is not connected???
- I'm currently rewiring everything to go on my accessory battery.

- I removed my factory lightswitch.
- I connected the power for the HL selector switch, and the markers/sig's to my new switch.

Problem is....

I attached a wire the Tundra's positive Bat. terminal.
Connected that to the power side of the lights.... To test 'em.

Nothing.

Wtf?

Then I went around the WHOLE TRUCK, and couldn't get a solid ground ANYWHERE!

Why is my truck not grounding!?

See red font above...

 

[Smokinthehippies]

dont know, but its going to be someing stupid simple that you overlooked.

 

[TheBeast_88K5]

dont know, but its going to be someing stupid simple that you overlooked.

I know it is, too....

 

[NorCal_Chris]

You need to hook the ground on the tundra to the ground on the blazer......

 

[NorCal_Chris]

Right now you just have a magic power wire so for your truck to ground it would have to go through your blazers tires into the driveway, then into the tundra tires and to it's frame.

Or just put the tundra battery in the blazer, your just not making a complete circuit

 

[TheBeast_88K5]

Right now you just have a magic power wire so for your truck to ground it would have to go through your blazers tires into the driveway, then into the tundra tires and to it's frame.

Or just put the tundra battery in the blazer, your just not making a complete circuit

Why would I assume a power wire could just be grounded anywhere!?

These wires are driving me nuts...

 

[ryoken]

don't forget dc systems complete a circuit... a 12v source has to be using the same ground as the component to complete the circuit......

 

[Fordum]

Why would I assume a power wire could just be grounded anywhere!?

These wires are driving me nuts...

I think from that, you have discovered that you do not have a ground reference from one truck to the other.
If so, that should fix that problem, but I suspect you still have another.

What did you mean when you said it ate a battery?
There are three possibilities.
One, the battery went dead and would not take a charge.
Two, the battery boiled over and burned up.
Three, you opened the hood and only found a few scraps of plastic left.

If its one, you probably had an alternator that was not putting out enough voltage, and it killed the battery and finally died its self.

Two, you either had a regulator problem with the alt, or a bad ground to it which caused the regulator to not be able to regulate and boiled the battery dry.

Three, unless you found pieces of the battery and acid everywhere from an explosion, don't go near that thing without a big club or some kind of gun. Any kind of critter that can eat plastic, lead and wash it down with sulfuric acid is not something to mess around with.........

Be sure to post pics if you see it.

 

[jekquistk5]

I think from that, you have discovered that you do not have a ground reference from one truck to the other.
If so, that should fix that problem, but I suspect you still have another.

What did you mean when you said it ate a battery?
There are three possibilities.
One, the battery went dead and would not take a charge.
Two, the battery boiled over and burned up.
Three, you opened the hood and only found a few scraps of plastic left.

If its one, you probably had an alternator that was not putting out enough voltage, and it killed the battery and finally died its self.

Two, you either had a regulator problem with the alt, or a bad ground to it which caused the regulator to not be able to regulate and boiled the battery dry.

Three, unless you found pieces of the battery and acid everywhere from an explosion, don't go near that thing without a big club or some kind of gun. Any kind of critter that can eat plastic, lead and wash it down with sulfuric acid is not something to mess around with.........

Be sure to post pics if you see it.

hahahaha

 

[TheBeast_88K5]

Three, unless you found pieces of the battery and acid everywhere from an explosion, don't go near that thing without a big club or some kind of gun. Any kind of critter that can eat plastic, lead and wash it down with sulfuric acid is not something to mess around with.........

I almost fell out of my seat laughing...

I meant that it killed the battery, because the Alt. was dying.
I didn't realize it was dying, so I tossed a new battery in, and it killed that one too...

I have to go pick up a new Alt., I know that.
The one that died was 2 years old, and saw HARD use.

The reason my lights didn't light when I tried,
was because I wasn't completing the circuit... I realize that, now.

I just assumed that, because you can ground a battery to the frame that.....

Ohhh..... Wrong frame.

Logic evades me, sometimes...