First post here. Trying to figure it out. So I have a 84 Berlinetta and I've been having a constant issue with it not staying charge. Started around freezing weather last year. Replaced the battery and have a new alternator and all was good until it wasn't. It started doing it again and now it won't even stay charged for three days. It's drawing 0.29 amps when checking on the battery. I read some threads on here and did the test light thing between the terminal and pulled fuses to see if it dimmed and nothing. However when I pulled the fuse that has the hazards going to it the hazards turn on. Same with the fuse that has the buzzer going to it. So I'm very confused on why it's doing that when it never did before. All fuses are new and good too. Any ideas and advice is appreciated.

 

Same advice as anyone with the same problem will get:

Look for aftermarket (non-factory) add-ons. Concentrate particularly on the stereo and any amplifiers, alarm systems, car starters, etc. Everybody says "I don't have any of that" then posts pics of butchered wiring, mystery boxes, alarm horns, etc. and asks what they are. Well, DUH.

Power feeding all those various things goes through fuses to get to them. There's no way puling a fuse for something will make that thing turn on. Imagine going to the breaker box in your house, turning off the one that the power to your TV's outlet comes from, and when turned off, the TV comes on; or, you turn off a light switch in your house, and the light comes on. Sorry, ain't happenin. Something else MIGHT be happening, but not that. Not in this universe.

"New" and "good" are irrelevant.

If ANY fuse at all will have an effect on this matter, it will probably be the CTSY (courtesy light) one. That circuit distributes hard unswitched full-time battery all around the cabin. It feeds the courtesy lights (duh), cig lighter, radio memory, power antenna, maybe a handful of other things as well but that should give you some idea. Basically, things inside the car that have power even when the ignition is switched off. 99.999% of the time, whatever gewgaw Stimpy installed into your car, will require full-time battery and consequently is hooked up to that circuit. The other .001% of the time it's because Skillet ran a wire straight to the battery itself somewhere somehow (happens more with alarms & car starters because lots of their parts are under the hood instead of inside the car) to get full-time power, so a quick look at what all is hacked onto the batt terminals & cables will reveal it.

 

I did pull the fuse for the radio since I did notice it was lit up when the car was off. Still died. I was maybe thinking possibly the starter or something in the engine bay since I've had to fix many of the previous owners goof ups. All of the emissions wiring is all gone which it has been way before it started doing this but not entirely ruling it out. The plug that went to the a/c dryer is unplugged since the dryer is gone. The wire going to the compressor is also gone. However I noticed my driver side door lock isn't working correctly anymore and I was thinking maybe that as well. Just throwing these out. I'll do more experimenting with the interior things and also check it's starter and cables. Thanks for the advice!

 

Not the fuse for the radio. That's BEHIND the ignition switch. It's already dead when you turn off the ignition.

The fuse for the COURTESY LIGHTS (the interior lights that come on when you open the door). THAT ONE is hot AT ALL TIMES. Among other things it supplies power to, it holds up the radio's memory, but is different from the "radio" fuse.

Not starter or cables.

Look for aftermarket add-ons that require full-time battery, or that are often wired that way: amplifiers, improperly wired radios, alarms, car starters. Not "the starter"; one of those little aftermarket electronic gadgets that let you start the car from your living room on a cold morning with the push of an aftermarket button.

 

Alright. I'll check through everything you mentioned. Appreciate your help. I'll update if i get figured out. I'll need to redo it's wiring anyways when I pull it's motor eventually but hopefully for now i can solve this issue.