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Old May 23rd, 2008, 09:18 AM   #1
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GEM fuse #39 drainig battery.... Can I pull it temporarily?


Ok, I am having an issue with my battery getting drained after being parked for a day or so. I have had the alt, batt and general electric system tested and everything is ok, but at sitting with nothing on I have a .25 amp drain. I pulled each fuse one at a time and found that the load dissapears when i pull #39 GEM.

My question while i know is stupid and not the right answer to my issue... Can I pull this fuse and still drive my car safely for a couple of days? I know it controlls the wipers, auto dawn window and a few other choice things, but if I pull it will anything be damaged while driving?

I really wont have time untill next tuesday to tear into my car and find the actual cause.
 
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No it won't damage anything by pulling the fuse. Were that the case, things would go horribly wrong if there were a blown fuse.
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you know... it is rather obvious that I work nights. I wake up at 1400, and go to work. Now it is 1045 the following morning and I am still awake with no chance of going to bed any time soon. I totally NEVER thought about fuses blowing and not damaging anything...
 
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you know... it is rather obvious that I work nights. I wake up at 1400, and go to work. Now it is 1045 the following morning and I am still awake with no chance of going to bed any time soon. I totally NEVER thought about fuses blowing and not damaging anything...

I hear ya brother. I do all kind of different shifts throughout the course of the week. When I finally went to bed last night (more like- passed out on the couch watching a movie) at about 10 pm, I had been awake for 34 hours. lol
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fixxed. turns out there was a short in the wire that goes from the alt to the batt light on the cluster. I simply ran a new wire between the two plugs and everything is great. My factory plug had .9 ohms resistance on it and my replacement wire now has .1

light is now off, adn every thig seems to be back to normal.


Still havent figured out the .15 amp draw, but Im thinking that it might just be the radio memory, cluster memory yadda yadda yadda.
 
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Glad you got it sorted man.
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to quick.. still having issues....
 
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