1997 Jeep Cherokee Clicking Noise Draining Battery

@sethnicholsdj.I am having the exact same problem with my 97 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Just happened.I hope someone can answer your question. The clicking noise is coming from under the glove box. My lights are on so it is not the battery.

Yep, it's like the turn signal clicking sound, but 2 times as fast.

My 97 jeep Grand cherokee just did the same thing. Leaving on road trip/move n 6 days. PLEASE HELP!

This just happened with my Dodge Caravan !999), I opened car door (with key) and that loud fast clicking was going. I turned the key to start. Not a sound. Nothing (lights, inside/out; horn; blinkers; brakes are stiff) works. The only thing that DOES happen is the engine temp and gas ant gauges go up. But, when I turn the key off, the clicking starts again. I'm waiting for an answer from the website mechanics. It was weird, after never hearing something like this, I read all these SAME problems, with different vehicles. I'M NOT ALONE! I appreciate all the sharing. I'm bracing myself for a car repair I can, in no way, afford.

I know this is years old, but I just thought I would report on my experience. I have a 1996 Jeep grand cherokee with this issue. I got down to looking through the fuse box and found that the issue is coming from the courtesy lamp fuse(slot 16) If the fuse is pulled the clicking and battery drain stops.

Engine Mechanical problem
1997 Jeep Cherokee 6 cyl Two Wheel Drive Automatic 18000 miles

battery being drain every day. Why is this alternator sis checking out ok an just bought a new battery had replace already still dead in morning. Can you help me fnd the issue

Hello:

I have a 1989 Jeep Cherokee with 4.0L engine. I have had the vehicle for about six years and now have a very strange problem occuring. I moved to Texas for school from Washington State and everytime it rains my battery dies. I never once had this problem in Washington where it rains all the time. But, here in Texas every single time it rains the battery dies.

I don't have a problem if I am driving just overnight. For example it started to rain today after nearly 100 straight days of heat and go to drive my Jeep and the battery is flat dead. I thought I had fixed the problem by replacing the battery from the last couple times this happened. I even upgraded to a Yellow Top Optima (Incredibly powerful deep cycle battery.) Yeah I know these are only for highly demanding situations such as marine use. I am a fire fighter with many radios and lights (none of which were on, I checked).

So whatever the problem is seems to be directly proportional to rain. What could be getting wet enough to cause a battery drain of a heavy duty deep cycle in under 4 hours?

Yes the problem is the vehicle won't start. You say your an auto mechanic? If you are you should know that the alternator is putting out approximately 60 Amps for a standard alternator, mine has an output of approximately 110 Amps @ 14.5 VDC. That equals 1595 Watts of Energy. This is more than enough to keep an engine running unless there was a direct short.

The battery recharges without problems once I jump start the Jeep. The trouble is the battery dies when it rains and does not allow the vehicle to start.

Thanks for the help!

Electrical problem
1998 Jeep Cherokee 6 cyl Four Wheel Drive Automatic 163143 miles

my husband bought a 98 jeep grand cherokee laredo less than aweek agothe first couple of days it wwas fine the last two night the battery drained overnight the battery checked out fine we tested all fuses what do we do now

Electrical problem
1996 Jeep Cherokee 6 cyl Four Wheel Drive Automatic 166747 miles

I'm having a problem with battery drain. If I pull the neg wire, the battery is good in the morning.

When I left the battery hooked up in the morning is practically dead.

How do I find the drain and determin what is wrong. It runs fine if I start it and pull the neg terminal, it runs fine. So were do I go from here?

Allan.