briteod

So the other day the red battery light comes on and goes away after i park and get back in. This goes on for a few days and today it totaly crapped out. got jumped and Jeep was not a happy bunny and eventuly threw the power train light and i had to pull over. I got a optima yellow top and problem went away for an hour or two then came back on the way home. Tested the output on the Alt it is around 14v, I have a Ripp supercharger too not sure if thats an issue

PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yoda

Stock battery is crap. Your not the first one who have to change the stock battery after 2 years...

RedneckJeep

did you get the alternator professionally checked? sounds like the alternator to me. There's more than just volts. 14 volts is kinda high. If it's not puttin out any or much amperage, that will cause the voltage to spike and your battery to die.

RIPPMODS

If anything - when you installed your supercharger kit you had to relocate your battery - to do so one of the steps was to extend the battery cables - make sure those connections are solid, if they are weak your charge won't go to the battery, possibly - prematurly wearing it.

Or

Your battery took a crap -

RIPPTECH

RedneckJeep

....but there's a REASON TWO batteries took a crap. He's already said his old one went to hell. then he replaced it with a yellow top and it died, too. I smell a bad alternator.

RIPPMODS

Right - it could be over charging also - if the voltage regulator is bad - which I believe is in the TPM you'd end up with the same cause and effect.

RIPPTECH

briteod

The new Optima is still good tomorrow we pulling the wiring open to check the connection on the extensions. A buddy said he had a similar problem with a butt conection on another truck causing the same problem so if that dont fix it then we are wondering if one of the conections to the ECU plugs is bad so we might check all of them over again if none of that then the stealership can look at the alternator. I know they are going to trow a poop fit over the supercharger and try to say it made the alt bad and make me pay for it. If that happens i am ready for a good fight

briteod

All fixed now We got to the conections for the two positive extensions and found that they had touched the blower and melted all the insulation off the butt conections, at one point one of them welded to the blower casing so it was creatng a short we reinsulated then and secured them down so thay cant ever move again i hope

Thanks for all your help until the next weird jeep light/noise/problem

curtis robinson

I too am having this issue, got left hi and dry on the roadside. I've got the ripp, did a resistance check before it went to the dealership, my battery cables (and extensions) are fine. I think it's the voltage reg. waiting for the phone call from the dealership to know for sure. They also told me that was located in the PCM, so we'll see how much this will run. By the way RIPP, that SC you guys sold me is awesome! Thanks!

jonboy

14 volts isn't too much. its suppose to put out 14.4 volts