Michigan people

[sjdwales]

good morning, sleeping in on ur day off certainly isn't in the cards for me today.

[beat3rfocus]

8am isssss sleeping in for me. Im lucky if I am able to sleep till 10 on a rare occasion.

[klodkrawler05]

Originally Posted by beat3rfocus

Ive got about 2 hours of work I need to do. Then waste time, slowly looking productive.

Indeed.

well......plus i've got an hour or 2 of driving the hummer around so half of my day will be "productive"

[sjdwales]

i cant sleep past 8am anymore. unless i got to work at 9am. and my last 9am for next few year is tomorrow. next week i will work 7.30-6pm or 8am-7pm days during the week, then 8-4 Saturday

[Timmeh!]

lol kevin already did my shopping throughout the year. plus our selection is kinda limited sadly...

maybe i'll grab a few more legal pads, those are real nice.

Also...

was giving wilhelm a good fill up at the local cheap diesel emporium (3.67 a gallon!!! woot!) after filling he didn't want to start (again....) luckily a nice Powerstroke F-250 (my best guess) was waiting for me to be done so he could fill up... man was nice enough to give me a jump...

but we had to really pull out the techniques... we did the two-to-one dual cables revving start...

clearly wilhelm needs a better alternator if my charge level is THAT low after just 5 minutes of filling him with diesel and he was on ACC...

Wilhelm's wish list for santa is long... don't know how much of it i'll be able to take care of in the new year.

also also... i realized that one of the reasons i've been able to let deb go (and it still hasn't been easy) is because i never had a really clear idea of what i wanted for her... she was gonna be lowered with a contour SVT motor and a WRC bodykit? and then i was gonna try to do AWD? lolololol silly timmy is silly.

With Wilhelm i have a clear vision (reliable cruiser/road trip car with provisions for towing) and that helps a TON. cause clearly i'd want a better alternator at some point for road tripping... and if i eventually put his motor in a 240D it'll need the extra power for all the rally driving lights i'm gonna put on it!!! :D :D :D

basically plans rock.


TL;DR
Wilhelm needed a jump, needs a better alternator.

[klodkrawler05]

any possibility of some sort of phantom drain on your car?

on my jetta diesel it took me forever to realize my glowplug relay/switch wasnt working and would drain the battery overnight. DOH

[klodkrawler05]

[Timmeh!]

lulz at the auto correct fail klod...

also i know his glowplug circuit isn't the problem... when i went out there this morning he started just fine... drive about 15 minutes, stop to get fuelz...

left him in ACC because it's easy

finished filling up and no start.

so he's just at a super low charge level... i haven't put him on a trickle charger and if i can find mine (correction: one of mine) then i'll hook him up tonight probably and he'll get some loving... but in the future i'm going to need a high powered alternator so that his battery is always nice and topped off... cause it's bad enough when the charge level is low... but then the temperature has a BIG effect... and of course at the gas station he was still at operating temperature... he would crank over but it was SOOO slow. not even close to fast enough to start.

i know my bluetooth receiver isn't the problem cause it's wired to the radio circuit, so it turns off when the radio does... and i didn't have this issue before.

so i'm chalking it up to the alternator and thinking i've got to put a nice alternator and better jumper cables (mine were almost too hot to touch by the time i got him started) i'm thinking of making some jumpers out of welding cable cause... we use 0/4 here at work for our high current applications (high current means 230A or there abouts)... i figure that should be sufficient for wilhelm's needs... although a better alternator and the "electrical big 3" upgrade should do the trick as well.

I could try and upgrade to a two battery system (put the second in the trunk) but then i have to run all those cables and it just seems like overkill.

[klodkrawler05]

Yea new alt seems easiest......also somewhat confused how leaving in ACC is easier than making 1 more quarter turn to put it in off mode?

granted he shouldnt be dying that quickly anyways lol! my jetta battery is finally getting weak but every time I work on that car I usually have it in ACC and run the radio the whole time I'm working on her. never had a problem doing that until recently when it was too dead to start.

[Timmeh!]

hmmm looks like for $40 i can get 4-ga cables (better than what i have for sure, rated to 500A) or for like $170 i can get 1/0 gauge cables (only rated to 600A but are "commercial grade") eh with a new alternator better jumpers would be moot anyways.