electrical issues

lomac9

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2006 250 Lariat. Have had issues w/ the temperature selector going out. (where you cant see any digital display or control heat or a/c). Ive been able to turn the truck off and back on again and seems to do the trick most of the time. I replaced my batteries over the summer but now there seems to be a drain on them from somewhere. Now its gotten worse. While driving down the road all the suddden the light will come on low batteries and the truck will start bucking a little and ALL gauges in the cluster panel go to zero and the truck shuts down. Can restart and get down the road 10-15 mins and it will do it all over again. Ive checked the batteries and they are 12v without the truck running and 14v w/ truck running. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I have this truck just sitting not able to work out of it.
 

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man, that just sounds like it has a loose ground somewhere...
 

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man, that just sounds like it has a loose ground somewhere...
Yup.
If not a loose ground, a major short circuit. Check all the cable connections on the batteries, starter, and everything else the attach to. You may just stumble onto something.
Ken
 

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I will check all those and I forgot to add the last coule times it had done it the ABS light has came on as well
 

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There was a ground that was rusted where it connected to the chassis. Cleaned it up and no problems since. Thanks again for the help.
 

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