On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:42:51 -0500, Michael Maskalans <dml@tepidcola.com>
wrote:
>
> I really wanted to take it for a drive to feel the improvements that I'd
> made to the steering but let it idle for about 5-10 minutes first, lights
> and fan off, to charge up.
>
> I jumped in, turned on the lights and defrost and started backing down
> the
> driveway to turn around, and the truck gently died. Battery needle was
> around 11.5-12v, so I shut everything off and restarted it. cranked a
> bit
> weakly but fired, didn't want to stay running. would just idle down too
> far and die. if I held it above 1500 it was fine. after a minute or so
> it would idle at 650 (normal idle) hapilly. it would idle in gear
> stopped, but when I went slowly at idle it would die.
>
> I ran it for long enough that it would hold 13v even after it died with
> the lights on so I don't think it's a battery issue. I took it for about
> a 5 mile test drive so if it's a PCM learning issue I'd expect that to
> have cured itself. My only other thought is maybe something related to
> transmission control + cold weather (30deg F or so) + bad RWSS = maybe
> not
> bumping up idle speed when in gear and rolling slowly?
>
> I'm going out of town for 9 days starting tonight so it will get to sit
> and think about it's problems and if I'm lucky fix itself but this
> strikes
> me as very strange. Ran fine and had power on the road, battery seemed
> to
> hold its own just fine after the truck ran for a while.
>
> guesses?
>
This happened to my 96 once. I went to help my brother moved and left the
lights on. When it was time to drive to the new place I found my battery
dead. We jumped it. The truck wouldn't stay running at all unless I kept
the rpm's high. I think I ran it for 15 minutes like that thinking maybe
the battery needed to be charged. Nothing worked. We wound up leaving it
behind. Came back the next morning and it started up fine and I never had
a problem like that again. I never had to jump it after that either.
-- -Droo
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