1995 Chevy Suburban my truck battery keeps dying

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1995 CHEVROLET SUBURBAN
V8
2WD
AUTOMATIC
124,000 MILES

I went to the laundry mat about 4 miles away truck ran fine came out maybe 2 hours later tried starting it and it just made a repeated clicking noise I got out popped the hood moved battery terminals and the truck started while I was driving home the temperature gauge went all the way up and the oil gauge went up and battery gauge was jumping but the truck didn't over heat made it home battery wasn't reading the normal 14 I turned the truck off and tried restarting it and it just made the clicking again got out and repeated the earlier steps with the terminals I then got pliers and tightened terminals and the key wasn't in the ignition and truck started to make a weird noise I loosened the terminal and it stopped what does this sound like to you?

Thursday, November 5th, 2009 AT 1:05 AM

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MHPAUTOS

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31,937 POSTS

Hi there,

Thank you for the donation, The first thing you should be doing is replacing the battery terminals, they sound as if they are well past there use by day so to speak, do this and report back your results, as for the noise, I am not that sure possibly a low voltage issue with the faulty terminals.

Mark (mhpautos)

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Thursday, November 5th, 2009 AT 3:09 AM