Battery appeared to be dead so I jumped it and noticed that the positive terminal was corroded. While trying to clean it off with some baking soda and a toothbrush the ring on the end of the cable basically fell off. I stripped the cable and cleaned it off then reattached a new connection. Then it tried to start the truck and nothing. The gauges all worked but the battery light stayed on. I thought that maybe my new cable might be the problem so I removed both connections (pos/neg) and jumped straight from a friends same make/same model pickup and the battery gauge on the column went to 12ish but it still wouldn't start. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm stumped. When I turn the key over nothing happens although the gauges and everything else works fine. I thought it may be the starter relay but honestly can't afford to keep buying new pieces and parts until I find the problem. On a side note does anyone else seem to have the same problems with their 2001 S-10's. This thing has already gone through three smog pumps, one because it caught fire driving down the road (that was interesting), two batteries, two third door handles, an intake and head gasket, the drivers side door doesn't close properly and you can see the great outdoors peering in through the gap around the front pillar. Actually the pass door barely closes fully most of the time either. A wiper motor, the stock cd player began eating cd's at around 30,000 miles. The list keeps building and building and like most folks I can't even get rid of it. You'd think I was some kinda monster truck driver the way it been falling apart since basically brand new. If anyone has any suggestions about the battery/starting problem I'd love to hear them!
Thank you,
D
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 AT 5:25 PM
