Chrysler Repair: car draining battery, volt ohm meter, chrysler lebaron

Question
same 92 chrysler lebaron with the transmission problem. if we don't undo the battery cables, it iwll drain the battery dead in 2 days. any suggestions? i'm really getting tired of this car. its a never ending problem. thank you so much for you help

Answer
Hi Rose,
Sorry to learn you have another problem, but here is how to deal with that one.
On the battery draining, there is something that is draining the current even though you don't know anything as being turned on. The best way to find what is causing the drainin is to obtain a volt-ohm meter at an electronics store or an auto parts store, or borrow one from a friend. You should be able to get one for under $20. Then you disconnect the clamp from the "-" or "neg" post of the battery, then remove the "+" or "pos" clamp. Then put the two test leads of the meter on the two clamps (one lead on each clamp) with the meter set to read ohms. It should read something less than infinite, but you would like it to read more that 100 ohms and ideally much more ohms than that, which would mean there was no source draining away the charge. If instead you find that it reads only 5 or 10 ohms that means there is a component that is draining the battery.
The procedure to find out the drain source is to disconnect each of the fuses that are assigned to a specific circuit  in the car, one at a time, and see if the meter reading moves toward infinity as the result. If there is no change in the reading of the meter, then replace the fuse and move to the next one in the fuse box and see if it causes an increased reading, etc. When you find one (or more) such fuses that when removed caused the reading of the meter to go up significantly, then look for  the label on the fuse box for that fuse, put the fuse back so that the reading decreases again and begin to unplug each of the electrical items that are powered by that fuse and keep checking until you find the item that causes the reading to go up again. That is the faulty component that is causing your problem.
You will want to do these tests with all the doors closed so that no lights are "on" and the car is sitting just as it is when you have it shut down. Be careful not to change anything about the car doors/lights (always close the doors before reading the meter) while you are doing this testing or none of it will make any sense.
You will find the fuse box under the dash in the passenger compartment on the driver's side of the car close to the side panel. The label(s) on the fuses in the box under the dash are the relevant search clues. This is something you can do yourself and save labor costs by so doing. If you find a fuse that when removed causes the reading to rise significantly, tell what the number of that fuse is and I will tell you what to do then to solve that problem specifically (how to unplug the suspected faulty item).
Whenever you go to reconnect the battery, always put the + post clamp back on first, then put on the - post clamp. The reverse is true when you disconnect the battery (as I described to you at the start). It is done that way for safety so you don't accidentally short the battery and get a burn.
Roland
Roland