Drying out my firebird after the flood.....

How goes it all? '99 T/A

Well it rained like hell. I had enough clearance to get across the water until someone slammed it and threw this "breaker" under the hood. That was enough to stall it out. Tried a couple times to see if it was going to crank but no such luck. Then ALL power died. I ended up pushing it with the help of 3 passing guys who wanted to get wet too.

Towed it, disconnected the battery cable and let it spend the night drying out in the garage. About 1am I put the cable to the terminal and the half up/half down radio antenna went down. I took it as a good sign. Today however, I've got squat. Meter on the battery shows 12.x volts disconnected. Connecting the cable drops it to like .45 volts across the terminals. Either the battery is nuked and can't call up any amperage or, more likely, there's still a short somewhere in here.

I'm fixing to get out the wiring diagrams and start tracing but figured someone out there had seen and done this before.

I know ya'll have a better idea of where to start than I do fumbling around under the hood.

So where would you get into first?

thanks, Kurt ~~~~~~ Bait for spammers: root@localhost postmaster@localhost admin@localhost abuse@localhost postmaster@[127.0.0.1] snipped-for-privacy@ftc.gov ~~~~~~ Remove "spamless" to email me.

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