Thanks Bill. I don�t think it�s the starter because the test light only lights when I touch it to the red wire coming from the harness. The power lead from the harness is not hooked up to the battery at the moment and the main wire form the battery to the starter does not show a short. For now I am just disconnecting the battery when I shut it down for the day. Hopefully I'll get time to mess with it in the next few days. Today I want to take a few minutes to adjust the valves and do the first 100-mile oil change. If the battery is dead again when I get out there today I'll buy a new one. This one sat in the car for a year and during that time I only started it a couple of times. I was disconnecting the cables each time. When I went to pick up the car last week the battery was dead but I thought it might have just been from sitting. Maybe it's really shot at this point.
I will try disconnecting the alternator before pulling fuses since that is so easy to do. Thanks for the suggestion. I have a feeling it might also be the horn lead, which was buried in the column when whoever put the sport wheel on. I can see it and for now I put a spring & contact on top of it from another cancel cam. I need to take the wheel off anyway to replace the lock cylinder with the new one that matches the door locks.
John Nasta
John, if you have a trickle type battery charger, I would remove the battery & hook it to the charger overnight. Many times a dead battery can be resurrected by putting it on a slow charge for an extended time. The battery won't come back to a full charge just by jumping it & then driving the car for a while.
BL
