[Healeys] battery draining or not holding charge

[ggilliam at usol.com]

Could be a intermittently loose electrical connection at the generator, 
regulator box or battery, or engine ground strap, or lack of a good 
ground for the generator through the mounting bolts.


On 10/03/2011 1:34 PM, warthodson at aol.com wrote:
> If the battery is new, then it is not the battery's fault. Besides 
> the
> regulator &/or the generator being prime suspects you might also 
> check the
> connections at the battery, the disconnect switch including the 
> correct
> functioning of the switch & white/black grounding wire, the engine 
> ground
> strap. Did you reverse the polarity so that you could use a GPS & 
> make other
> modifications which might be contributing the the charging problems.
> Gary
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randey Brophy <randey_brophy at telus.net>
> To: healeys <healeys at autox.team.net>
> Sent: Sun, Oct 2, 2011 11:56 pm
> Subject: [Healeys] battery draining or not holding charge
>
>
> I have a 1965 fully restored BJ8    I replaced the battery recently 
> and
> fter 3 weeks  of running fine the  new battery is now not holding a 
> charge.
>  have nothing in the car that would drain the battery-no radio etc- 
> except
> or a Viper GPS, which everyone tells me shouldn't tax the battery. 
> The
> iper periodically reports battery low while I'm traveling in the car 
> and
> oday the car wouldn't start after a fill up and needed a few attempts 
> at a
> ump start before it would turn over. Cruising back to town at 70-85 
> MPH the
> verdrive stopped working for a bit car automatically went our of 
> overdrive
> nd wouldn't go back in,then the ignition light came on indicating the
> attery's not charging; after awhile the ignition light went out 
> overdrive
> orked again, but when I got home parked it and turned it off it 
> wouldn't
> tart again..Zilch after a 50 mile drive which should have recharged 
> the
> attery.  Please advise what's going on and what to do to fix 
> this..thanks
>
> Randey Brophy
> 1747 Trafalgar St
> Vancouver BC