I’ll have to try all of that tomorrow morning, I wound up leaving the Jeep at work, I don’t want to make things worse or risk it breaking down on me.

it did fire right up and seemed pretty normal before I left; maybe the idle wasn’t as smooth as could be, but maybe I was just being overly sensitive.

I am worried about seeing so many codes come and go like that, a couple were of misfires and both sets of O2 sensors, and another sensor monitoring the wiring for the O2 sensors, something with the pcm monitoring another circuit shorting...weird stuff, it would definitely seem there is a short somewhere but I couldn’t find anything for the life of me and inched all along that thing

 

A frequent cause is the front O2 wire grounding out.

 

Good morning guys

so I came in early to try and tackle these suggestions, and it turns out there was no fuse in slot 10! Fixing that, the codes disappeared, guess user error was in fact the problem...not sure how doing them one at a time I missed that, but probably because I have an extra in one of the “open” spots that threw my count off.

as far as the drain, bypassing the pdc I will see the 70mA, while doing this I disconnected the alternator and the starter and still see it, where is the next place to look? The wires are covered so I can trace the continuation of the + red wire

 

So to be clear, if the red wire to PDC is disconnected, drain stops, but if red is connected to green, and the PDC is completely bypassed, drain appears?

 

Yes correct, just red and green, no pdc, I still the drain. Just red and green, no pdc, no alternator, no starter, I still see the drain.

 

Green turns to Black/Yellow Stripe which goes to the alternator. Check that area out carefully.

 

If your vehicle has the security system, check the key lock switches. Not the door switches.

 

So you think it’s a problem with the grounding? Am I looking for a short before the pdc?
I had fully disconnected the alt this morning when I still saw the drain.

im honestly not sure if I do have the security system haha, no blinking red light, that’s for sure.

 

Then the short has to be in the Black/Yellow Stripe wire. Fully expose it.

 

I stripped the ground wire bare up to the pdc and to the alternator and I don’t see anything amiss...maybe someone else does?

 

Should this still be reading 70mA on the battery posts when the negative is disconnected?! Could this be a multi problem?

 

LOL that should be reading the full short circuit current of the battery, dude. How many cold cranking amps you have there? 800 amps? If you're on the 10A scale, you for sure popped the little fuse in the meter. Good luck finding those for less than the cost of a new meter.
If you're on the mA scale you fried the meter.

 

Right...I can see how that would be a problem haha. I generally do not know enough about electronics/circuits to have considered that would blow the multi, though in hindsight it seems pretty obvious!

so for days I’ve been using this thing in that condition. It seems to still work though, but I guess these are unreliable readings then

 

unreliable is an overstatement.

 

Ok, broke out another multimeter, got 1.56mA from negative terminal to negative post, which actually seems a little low now! Haha