I checked that site and there was nothing there .. Thanks though. No I don't have anything plugged in, all the doors were shut and the hood light doesn't work. I am at my wits end. I guess I'll put the alternator back on tomorrow .. I just can't imagine. I've got posts on the Expedition forum. I'm hoping some Ford mechanic will come by. The Lincoln forum is useless! I hate the thought of taking it to the dealer ..... Why, ya reckon, it can't be simple like my '56?

Doing Fords for 45 years. '56 Customline Victoria

E.J. in Havana FL

Any power converters plug in anywhere? Like cel phone chargers etc. Even if the item is not on to charger the converters still pull power. (just a wild thought). Chuck in NH

Y's guys rule!
Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire

The average new car is 100-400ma of draw shut off. You must have all the doors shut and make sure the hood light unpluged! Don't forget a stuck open relay too! Alot of times its a switch or input into the body control computer leaving it energized. Anything left plugged into your 12 volt power outlets inside? Let us know what you find!

1959 and 1960 f-100sAkron OH

Try this site-

http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/tsbs/tsbsearch.cfm

I've used it before for troubles

Ol'ford nutCentral Iowa

56 Vic w/292 & 4 spd.

OK, my ass is kicked. I got the alternator off and un-hooked and the test light still comes on so it's apparently not the alternator. I would have bet a hundred bucks it was the alternator. As I said before I had the same thing on my truck and that's what it was after I had pulled every fuse it had. Not here. I'm back to square one now .. don't have a friggin' clue ...

Doing Fords for 45 years. '56 Customline Victoria

E.J. in Havana FL

Well Mike, no I haven't checked. I don't have any kind of light on like "Check engine" but I do have a car chip that can plug into the plug. The next thing I'm going to do is take the wire off of the alternator (if I can get to it). I can sort of see it but it's waaaay down in there under the front of the intake manifold. It looks like getting that alternator off is goin' to be an absolute nightmare .. Thanks though, any ideas are good ..

Doing Fords for 45 years. '56 Customline Victoria

E.J. in Havana FL

The navigators systems have to go to "sleep" shut down after they aren't used awhile. When I was a service manager for Ford, they seemed to have a problem with the clusters not allowing the vehicle to go to "sleep". Have you checked codes yet?

 I'm on a Lowwwww Budget

Hey Steve, it's brand new (a week old). Exide battery. Anyway, I went out and checked every fuse in it. Did the ones under the dash and the ones under the hood. A previous post mentioned an alternator. Come to think of it I think when I had this problem on my F-250 several years ago, I think that's what it was then too. That's my next check and of course it is buried down in the bowels of the motor. Looks like I'm goin' to have to take half the motor apart just go get to it. It's under the intake manifold. I need to change the plugs too and I don't even know where they are. Not like my '56 generator which is right there .. Oh well, the modernization of machines, all for the better right? LOL !!!!

Doing Fords for 45 years. '56 Customline Victoria

E.J. in Havana FL

EJ - How old is the battery? It sounds like it is only holding a "face charge"......these new outfits go from great to gone in a very short span when they reach their "design life".

New vehicles have all sorts of little lighting transformers and power supplies with a constant drain - and when the battery reaches a certain reduced strength level - they will kill it quick.... 

 
 Steve Metzger       Tucson, Arizona

Thanks guys. I guess I'll start with 56 Big Window's suggestion. Sounds reasonable to me. The batter is brand new and posts are clean. Thanks again ..




Doing Fords for 45 years. '56 Customline Victoria

E.J. in Havana FL