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378 Wont Start After batteries were taken out???????

Discussion in 'Peterbilt Forum' started by DirtPit, May 22, 2015.

  1. May 22, 2015 #1
    DirtPit

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    Got a 95 378 Pete day cab with a 60's series Detroit. Went out to start it this morning to move a backhoe to a jobsite an Batteries were gone. No wires were cut an all hardware was put back in the battery box. Went and checked the other trucks an equipment sitting in outside an no other batteries were taken. Went to load the trailer on the dump truck an noticed all the chains and binders were gone as well as the chains an binders from the neck of the lowboy trailer as well. So a total of 12 binders and chains, an the batteries from the pete were stolen. Went an got new batteries an hooked em up. The truck will crank over but it will not start. What could be the cause of this?
     
    DirtPit, May 22, 2015
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  3. May 22, 2015 #2
    07shaker

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    Did you check the fuel tank? If all that stuff was stolen they might have taken the fuel too.
     
    07shaker, May 22, 2015
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  4. May 22, 2015 #3
    DirtPit

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    No its got fuel in it
     
    DirtPit, May 22, 2015
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  5. May 22, 2015 #4
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    check under the hood, see if they took the ecm.
     
    Powder Joints, May 22, 2015
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  7. May 22, 2015 #5
    DirtPit

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    Ecm is still there
     
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  8. May 22, 2015 #6
    DirtPit

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    Everything is where it should be minus chains and batteries but new batteries went in there place and are hooked up properly
     
    DirtPit, May 22, 2015
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  9. May 22, 2015 #7
    BoxCarKidd

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    Look for smaller wires that connect to the batteries. Positive and negative possibly up to four, the power the ecm.
     
    BoxCarKidd, May 22, 2015
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  10. May 22, 2015 #8
    xsetra

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    Ya what BoxCarKidd said. Also may check the inline fuses in those small wires.
    When they removed batteries it is possible they sent a surge to the ECM. Good Luck
     
    xsetra, May 22, 2015
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  11. Aug 27, 2015 #9
    showtimenga

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    mine did that come to find out ecm has a battery in for memory is what i was told any how it was dead and when i toke all my bats out it was gone it was liveing on the life of the truck batterys.
     
    showtimenga, Aug 27, 2015
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