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Trucks acts like dead battery start when cold

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Old Oct 15, 2009 | 08:42 AM
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Originally Posted by dungholio
i have been thru this, it ended up being a bad negitave battery cable for me. when you have this problem and take off a cable then reinstall it, and its working fine after that then its that cable. next time it happens, pop the hood and try and start it, if there you see a lil bit of smoke come off a wire then that is the point of a bad connection, could be as simple as maybe needing a new cable end
Well it seems so far that my problem is fixed by replacing the negative cable. I bought a new negative battery cable which came with the top post clamp and 3 ground wires, 1 goes to the body, 1 to the frame and 1 to the starter for $12 at autozone. So far so good.


Thanks all for the help!
 
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