I think today I'm going to swap the negative terminal on the battery, I had no problem whith the battery that was too small so its most likely there. my boss sais, " put jumper cables where the ground cable goes and it it goes away you know where it it, but I'm 61, I've worked on a lot of vehicles, from lawn mowers to farm equipment to dump trucks, to multimiooion dollar aircraft, I use forums lek this for the strange stuff that happens, and that strange stuff happens a LOT more since the started putting computers in cars, but I have e gut feeling I should start where I first had teh problem,
That will happen later today when its not 18 degrees

 

Furtunetly for me I have never lived farther North than Norfolk Va my truck was a farm truck, thats [robally whe it had a toyota batteriun under teh hood and mice living in te blower fan, vents nd air cleaner, and it was sold to my boss as junk because teh fuel pump went ou, he put a pump in it qnd sold it to me he didnt look at anything else, since then I have been fixing everything else one thing at at time
But I'll tell ya this, if that enginre ever goes, the block and heads are going to little and Jenkins in Roanoke rapids to get milled and it WILL be rebuilt, that thing tachs 1500, at 57 mph and I go through 3/4 of a 35 gallon tank ine three weeks, so its a keeper the ONLY vehicle I have EVER had that got better milage than this thiing is a 1982 Toyota corolla

 

Ok I just spent $45 to hook the battery up liek we have at my work, it DID solve one electrical issue BUT the started still doesnt engane right, so me think=ks its time to go on rock auto and price a starter