Battery drain

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CHEVROLET ASTRO

I have a 97 chevy astro van (v6) with about 200000 miles. Started to notice electronic issues, clock resetting, about two months ago. The battery is about a year old. It drains itself while the car is not running, brought it back to a full charge, started and ran fine, a day later, it is completely dead again.

trying to jump to recharge the battery. Wont turn engine, just a clicking sound? Any suggestions are GREATLY appreciated!

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RASMATAZ

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Disconnect the positive battery post and put test light in between the disconnected cable and battery positive post is the test light lit-if so start removing fuses one at a time the one that turns off the light is the trouble circuit.

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Sunday, November 25th, 2007 AT 9:22 AM

RASMATAZ

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From: gstorer
To: rasmataz
Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 9:52 am
Subject: battery drain
I notice there are large fuses inside the engine area and small ones under the dash. Do I test all of them. Really appreciate your help!

Sir,

You must test all of them

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Sunday, November 25th, 2007 AT 4:20 PM

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Your glove box dor may not be completely closing -- I had the same problem and I just disconnected the glove box light bulb and never had the problem again.
Hope that helps!
Mark

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Sunday, November 25th, 2007 AT 6:06 PM