racingjoe66
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[FONT="]Okay guys, me and my son were out checking minnow traps this evening and cruising through snow out in the field with the HMMWV and having fun in the ditch. When were heading back to the house from out in the field and got to the field drive that is going up hill and with a 3 foot snow drift in it we stopped and shut the truck off to put it from H to HL and when I attempted to restart it within 10 seconds. I noticed the wait to start light didn't light up and then I tried to start it, the truck wouldn't even click or crank over or anything at all, absolutely no noises of anykind. The lights all come on like they should and everything. I did notice that when I didn't have the brake lever activated that when I tried to start it the break light would light up and go back off when i turned the ignition switch to off. But when I did activate the parking break lever the break light would stay solid with the ignition switch in the run and start position. I have switched through all the gears in the transfer case as well as the transmission and making sure the trans is in Nuetral still with no help and even tried starting in gear and nothing. I also pulled the transmission shifter towards me to try and see if the saftey switch was acting up and still nothing. I checked the battery connections and they were all loose so I tightened them all up and that made no difference. I checked the voltage and it was 23.3 volts. I checked the voltage when flipping the ignition switch to attempt to start and the voltage doesn't drop at all or even glitch. I also did notice that the heater fan will come on now with the ignition switch in the off position and what i recall from before this happened was that the fan would only come on if the truck was running and or the ignition switch was in the run position but not in the off position like it is now. I did crawl under the truck with the ignition switch in the run position and jumped the starter solonoid and the truck cranked over but would not fire at all.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Any ideas what happened? The more I am thinking about this and with the wait light not coming on and the heater fan being able to be turned off and on even with the ignition switch in the off position is that somehow the truck is thinking it is still running........? Ignition switch or nuetral saftey switch?[/FONT]
[FONT="]thanks for any help!
[/FONT]okay guys I have an update. When I checked the batteries last night they were 23.3 volts. now this morning when I went to see if it would start they were at 18.7 volts. Then I fired up the skid loader and moved all the snow for 200 feet to get to it to be able to pull it out and up to the shop. I just checked them now and they are at 17.6 volts. Still no wait to start light and everything else. So what ever the issue is, is drawing the batteries down too. If it is the neutral safety switch can that cause the electrical drain and trick the computer to thinking the truck is still on?
thanks guys!
[FONT="]Any ideas what happened? The more I am thinking about this and with the wait light not coming on and the heater fan being able to be turned off and on even with the ignition switch in the off position is that somehow the truck is thinking it is still running........? Ignition switch or nuetral saftey switch?[/FONT]
[FONT="]thanks for any help!
[/FONT]okay guys I have an update. When I checked the batteries last night they were 23.3 volts. now this morning when I went to see if it would start they were at 18.7 volts. Then I fired up the skid loader and moved all the snow for 200 feet to get to it to be able to pull it out and up to the shop. I just checked them now and they are at 17.6 volts. Still no wait to start light and everything else. So what ever the issue is, is drawing the batteries down too. If it is the neutral safety switch can that cause the electrical drain and trick the computer to thinking the truck is still on?
thanks guys!