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Old Yesterday | 6:08 PM
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Default Battery drain dead over night

04 Chevy Classic. Fully charged new battery drains overnight. I disconnected the negative battery cable and connected a test light to the cable and to the negative side of the battery. I get a strong light on the test light - I checked connection from the battery both posts to the engine block and starter motor. Checked doom light is out. No door lights, parking lights, brake lights. Tested brake light switch. Reset/pulled all fuses and resistors etc in fuse box - all connections are clean - test light stayed on entire time. Assuming a wire somewhere in the car may be grounding against the body. Bad alternator, bad starter motor, window motor? Any advise on a process to find what is draining the battery.

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This will take a while, Take one fuse out at a time overnight and see if the battery is dead. this will tell ehich cirtcuit is the ptoblem
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This will take a while, Take one fuse out at a time overnight and see if the battery is dead. this will tell ehich cirtcuit is the ptoblem
I somewhat did that I pulled a fuse out one by one and watched my test light on the negative side of the battery to see if a pulled fuse would turn off the light. It didn't.

But I'll give your method a try.

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