ok my last batt. was super drained, had to get another one, i just went out there, to start my car and it wouldn't crank it was drained again,i took the pos. and neg cables off, i walk away in disbelief thinking of what a huge problem i have, when i say screw it ill try again come back , i hook them both back up and bam she cranks right on up, my question is can i disconnect one of them without it draining, and which side would it be, something electrical is obviously wrong here, but until i get it fixed ill have to keep disconnecting it

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Disconnect the negative side. Have your alternator checked out to see if it's doing it's job. Also, check to see if you have anything that could possibly be a slow drain on the battery (i.e.-small accessory light that stays on).

 

will do i work at a auto parts store, never thought about my alt. ill do that tomorrow

 

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that is soo bad in so many ways...

 

hey i have the same problme, could it be soemhtign as small as an led light on my cd plyaer than only comes on when my faceplate is off? other wise my battery starts right up unless it sits for a while and its a brand new battery? does anyone know? thnaks

 

I had the same problem with my car after I let it sit for about a week my batter would drain. I don't recommend this but I bought a little thing that you could attach to your negative cable that would kill your battery when you park it. It just bolted up to the negative cable and you would have to unsrew it. Ok now onto the problem, you need to get a ohnmeter and check for a drawl, When you hook up the ohnmeter their will be a certain amount of current on the ohnmeter, now you should pull ever fuse in the car under the drawl goes away. That is what i did but I finally eventually found out it was my autometer guage draining my battery, so I threw it because I was tired of all the touble and aggerivation it caused me.

 

Doood, you got a cable problem.
A battery does not just come back to life!

You messed with some stuff and it started working again.
You have a voltage drop problem in a cable. This usually happens at a cable end, probably the ends you messed with. Look for corrosion or a split end.
Next time you have the problem and shaking the ends, if that does not work, use a set of jumper cables as your battery wires, connect the ground end to the battery- and the block and the pos to the battery + to the big pos wire post on the starter if you can reach it. If it starts its a cable problem. You can use this to diagnose the problem and figure out which cable is bad by doing only one at a time.
If you really have a voltage draw and want to disconnect a cable you should disconnect the neg side. This is the only one you can disconnect and not stand a chance of arcing out a tool when disconnecting it.
If you have a test light you can do a quick check to see if you have a voltage draw.
(1)Loosen the neg cable but do not disconnect it.
(2)Take your clamp end of the test light and clamp it to the bolt on the neg cable.
(3)Take the probe end of the light and stab the top center of the neg battery post.
(4)Being careful not to touch the battery cable to the probe portion of the test light, slowly lift the cable off of the post.
(5)If you are not touching the cable end to the probe on the test light (the clamp end is clamped to it though) and the light comes on, you have a voltage draw on the system. The brighter the light, the more power flowing through the circuit. Start pulling fuses from the fuse panel till you find the fuse circuit that is using all of the power. Once you find that fuse you should be able to figure out the likely draw source on that fuse..
Hope this helps!

 

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Why is it so bad? I was just suggesting that he disconnect his battery when he isn't using his car so his battery won't drain. Not to remove the negative while his motor is running.....that I know is bad.