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Old 12-01-2008   #9 (permalink)
newman27
'72 Opel GT (Sara)
 
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Originally Posted by wrench459 View Post
Sorry Matt that I had to quote you.
Theres something wrong. I can let my GT sit for over a week. The only draw is a clock and a radio memory. And this is with a very small battery and it will spin over for over 3 minutes. One day I'll fix the leaking acc. pump.
Off the top maybe a shorted battery
or a small draw
or bad diodes in the alt.
Dan
Hmmm, well maybe so. I was posting when you posted this but note that this is a problem maybe a couple times a year. I assume if I had a bad alternator or any other major issue, it would be more consistent . I do have a rather complicated radio set-up with the XM Radio. I have an in-dash head unit, a separate XM tuner, an XM "adapter" module (takes the output of the XM tuner as an input and then sends the signals and data to the in-dash head unit), and an amp. Maybe a check of the connections is in order...

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'72 Opel GT (Fireglow Orange)

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