[grayharville]

I've got one. Have a pesky ground out wire that's draining your battery and you can't find it? I can narrow it down.

1.With the key OFF, remove the POSITIVE battery cable.
2. Place a test light in line with the cable, ie. Positive side touching battery post and negative side touching battery cable terminal.
3. If you have a direct short the light should be dimly lit, since the positive circuit is being grounded somewhere.
4. Have a buddy watch the test light while you begin pulling fuses from the fuse block.
5. Pull fuses and replace one at a time until the light goes off.
6. Note which fuse caused the light to go out. That will be the circuit draining your battery.
7. Inspect wires in that circuit till you find a melted or shorted wire.
8. Repair and feel better.

I ran across this recently while trying to find why my battery was draining, after realizing it was in the radio circuit I found a cut wire grounding out.
I saved alot of time as this only took 5-10 minutes.

I credit this to my dad. Hope it works for anyone who needs it
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