Battery arc'd now truck won't start

They don’t check for amperage.. I had to go to batteries plus when my battery died .

 

good to know, i have a friend who works at a batteries plus.

 

What do the ground wires at EA and IG look like?

 

Far as i know the ground wire that looks cut has been that way since ive owned this truck. I will look into fixing that soon but since it wasn't active turning incident its "good"

 

Make sure you clean and tighten you contacts all of the main ones. I had this similar issue with a ranger I had it turned out to be bad battery terminals.

 

Just got back from batteries plus and the battery is fine. they tested everything from volts to amps to a stress test and it performed excellent at a 70% charge.

Any other attempts are done for the day as it started to rain and it's not in a garage

I think tomorrow I'm probably gonna end up having it towed to the Toyota dealership and ill let one of their techs play with it. I'm almost certain that the ECU got a surge and fried but I want a professional to take a look. def going to hurt the bank but I need my truck.

 

Would this fall under comprehensive insurance ? Might save you some money going threw insurance . Otherwise best of luck hopefully it’s something easy .

 

didn't think of that, ill have to call my insurance tomorrow and see. Thank you for the suggestion. I have full coverage so maybe?

 

There are 2 ground wires that ground the chassis to the battery, one that comes off of the inner fender by the battery that is not connected and one that comes off the firewall to the cylinder head. Connect the fender wire and get back to us.

 

That cut wire should be the main body ground to the battery, that means the current had to have found an alternate path probably though another much smaller ground wire.
I'd want to look at all the wires going to all the ground points on the body for any that are burned or melted.

 

Carefully look at the sides of the plastic box that holds your fuses. There is a sliding secret door. I did what you did before and the fuse is in there. I am surprised nobody knows.

 

I took a screwdriver and ripped the door off.

 

Its under the big wire going in the box

 

WHAT HAPPENED ON THIS ONE

 

It looks like he fried the neg term to body ground wire...
straps are way over rated anyways....

That means his only ground is off the engine mount....


So that one little wire WAS grounding ecm, body electronics, injectors, coil packs, light bulbs, and all the engine sensors at the same time...........wow...that was a busy little wire.....bless its heart....

I dont see anything wrong with that...