Mudski GU Build Thread

[mudski]

Good find, Mudski. Electricity is a myth. Everything runs on magic smoke, and it looks like the smoke has escaped from the system.

Thanks to you mate. If you never mentioned about chasing a parasitic draw earlier on I would have just replaced the battery assuming it was a dud.

Also Im not sure how, but the battery was drained to 1V. I managed to get the smart charger to do a recond charge, took over 24hours to do so, I left the battery for another 24hours, the voltage dropped to 12.8v, I did a load test and it passed with flying colours. I serious thought I have killed this battery.

I do hope what i found is the cause.

I've also order a new fuse block to replace the shitty block i have with the blade terminals, to a screw terminal type. Much betterer!
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I'll also re label them all so they are right! Lol

Then onto finding a suitable replacement to the crap rose joint style sway bar links. I'm sick of greasing them after everytime i take the patrol on dirt, and they flog out so quickly too.

Oh and I might remove the starter and clean the solenoid up too. Might. Thats a big pain in the ass off a job...

[PeeBee]

Mark, if you have not already purchased that fuse block, have a look at blue seas - they sell units with LED indicators of a blown fuse and are great - instant location of the blown circuit. They work with the wire or resettable fuses as well. If not Blue Seas there are other knock off brands on ebay.

[mudski]

Mark, if you have not already purchased that fuse block, have a look at blue seas - they sell units with LED indicators of a blown fuse and are great - instant location of the blown circuit. They work with the wire or resettable fuses as well. If not Blue Seas there are other knock off brands on ebay.

Thats the brand I have bought Phill. Not buying Chinese knockoff again. Nothing but shit they are. Lesson learned. You get what you pay for...

[PeeBee]

Thats the brand I have bought Phill. Not buying Chinese knockoff again. Nothing but shit they are. Lesson learned. You get what you pay for...

Did you buy the model with the blown fuse indictor LED?

[mudski]

Did you buy the model with the blown fuse indictor LED?

It was never mentioned it had that from where I bought it. If it does, yay for me, if not, meh! The shape of the housing is more what I wanted, long and narrow.

[mudski]

Success!!!

Now to wait for the fuse box to arrive, fix that shiz up then sort the sway bar links.


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[mudski]

@mudnut ;
Your a eleccy nut mate. All is wrong with old unit mate is the resistor. I’m throwing this out. Do you want it? I’m happy to post it to you mate. If you fix it, win! Wireless winch controls for the price of a resistor.
If not I’ll bin it. Just seems so little that’s broke. Just beyond my shaky hands with a soldering iron.


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[mudnut]

That resister is worth 10 cents. Have go at fixing it and keep it as a spare.

[mudski]

That resister is worth 10 cents. Have go at fixing it and keep it as a spare.

Yeah I thought about it, but i know I'll probably never get around to it.

[mudski]

So I took the battery cell caps off last week to check the cell levels on the deep cycle aux battery, put it on a float charge.
On Saturday I decided to take the Patrol for a spin, checked everything under the bonnet for tools etc. Nope nothing, closed the bonnet and took off.
I came home and parked it back in the garage, put the bonnet up and instantly saw I had left the caps off the battery! Wtf! Somehow all but two caps were still sitting on the battery. But now I am missing two.
Trying to work out what threat they are I finally worked out they are m14 x 1.25.
How did you work that out you say? Like this!

They fit perfectly. Now to find some plastic plugs with the same thread.


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