Chevy 6.0 starting issue.

[Soundguy]

Any results yet?

 

[NS Gearhead]

Any results yet?

Yup, she died last friday. Went to get my daughter from daycare and about 5min from home the dash started lighting up, she wouldn't shift into OD, and the turn signals stopped working. I pulled over and tried shifting the transfer case; nothing there either. I limped it home. Plow wouldn't work to lower it. Turned it off and it wouldn't re-start. So, my buddy came over with his service truck. Checked 'er all over. He said the battery wasn't any good, but that wasn't the starting issue because he had boosters going from his truck and still no go, but could have caused things to go haywire that day. He tested all the grounds this way and they were all good. Couldn't find the issue, so he came back the next day with his trailer and took it home. Come to find out the ignition fuse by the driver's door wasn't getting power. He was going to bypass it to another ignition fuse... but this wasn't going to work, so I'm going to have a momentary switch straight from the battery. He said if he wires it without the switch the battery light in the dash stays on all the time, even with the key removed. Obviously the proper repair would be to hunt down the reason why it's not getting power and possibly replace that fuse block... but this would be up to three days of labor or more... and I'm just going to try it this way for now. I'm just happy the problem's been found.

 

[Soundguy]

not sure how chevy does it, but the back of my ford fuse panel / gemm module has a high density connector.. might be one with come corrosion on it. Might pay to unseat, clean, add corrosion spray protection like deoxit, and then re-connect.