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Engeman

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Hey Everyone,

 

Today I changed the battery on my 2015 Chevy Silverado 5.3L V8, w when tightening the negative I dropped the wrench and arced the battery. I went in to try to start the truck but no dash lights come on, no radio. I turn the key and the warning chime goes off 5 times. I then pulled every fuse and cannot find a broken one. I am looking for help and answers as I can't seem to find this problem anywhere else. I did test the battery with a multimeter but it is coming up 12.67 so should be good. I also Have a few other questions:

 

- How do you check the large fuses and relays?

- Other than fuses what could be the problem? 

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Disconnect the battery to de-energize the truck again and when it's fully depleted, take the black plastic cover off the positive buss bar on the top of the battery. (you can test continuity of the fuses while energized but if you accidentally have one probe on your meter to ground and another touches positive you could either blow the fuse in the meter or destroy your meter so be safe) 

 

You will find several studs and they all have an amperage that follows up to the center to tell you what that part is rated at for the buss bar. To check each one just take your multimeter and set it to ohms and test continuity between the positive stud on the battery to the stud on the inner side of the battery where each wire gets bolted to. If you have an open load then you blew that part of the buss bar fuse and it needs to be replaced.

 

I don't think the negative wire has a fusible link in itself but I could be wrong. You can also try to jumper the blown stud directly to the positive terminal on the battery to provide power to that circuit.

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Nigel Ystenes Enthusiast

Nigel Ystenes

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I had a similar problem, brought it in and they wiggled the battery terminal connection, tightened it more, wiggled the connection, tightened it, and all the sudden the fan, radio, and blinkers turned on.

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