CorneliusRox
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- North of MSP
Hey guys,
I came out to a dead battery yesterday (really dead, left the running lights on somehow). I had my buddy jump my car, who is an Electrical Engineer. Well it wouldn't start at first so we let it sit for 15min to charge up this super dead battery. It still didn't start and all the gauges were acting goofy, so I went and looked.
He put the cables on backwards to his car:exclamati So that's 15min of 24V being pumped into my XJ...
So... I bought a new battery, hooked it up, and the Jeep started fine. A bunch of stuff didn't work and it wasn't charging, so I checked fuses and found two 60A and one 15A fuses had gone bad. I replaced them and now everything worked except the radio and my cruise control.
I checked every fuse under the hood and by the drivers pedals. Are there any more I'm not thinking of. Is there anything anyone recommends?
I think I can hear scratching noises behind the wheel that didn't used to be there and I'm wondering if my clock spring got melted somehow (even though fuses were blown). And hopefully the radio just has a fuse on the back of it that I haven't gotten to last night. This all happened pretty late, so I haven't been able to tear off the steering wheel or radio out yet, but it's killing me sitting at work thinking about it and not being able to tear into it!
I came out to a dead battery yesterday (really dead, left the running lights on somehow). I had my buddy jump my car, who is an Electrical Engineer. Well it wouldn't start at first so we let it sit for 15min to charge up this super dead battery. It still didn't start and all the gauges were acting goofy, so I went and looked.
He put the cables on backwards to his car:exclamati So that's 15min of 24V being pumped into my XJ...
So... I bought a new battery, hooked it up, and the Jeep started fine. A bunch of stuff didn't work and it wasn't charging, so I checked fuses and found two 60A and one 15A fuses had gone bad. I replaced them and now everything worked except the radio and my cruise control.
I checked every fuse under the hood and by the drivers pedals. Are there any more I'm not thinking of. Is there anything anyone recommends?
I think I can hear scratching noises behind the wheel that didn't used to be there and I'm wondering if my clock spring got melted somehow (even though fuses were blown). And hopefully the radio just has a fuse on the back of it that I haven't gotten to last night. This all happened pretty late, so I haven't been able to tear off the steering wheel or radio out yet, but it's killing me sitting at work thinking about it and not being able to tear into it!