Battery draining fast

Glad you and your daughter are on this together. It will be a good set of lessons in patience with older machinery and planning ahead for handling roadside breakdowns! (Tell her not to drive it in any tough neighborhoods for a looong time while it gets sorted out.)
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The light came on when testing the blue wire with key in on position. I went back out in the rain and ran a ground to the regulator box with ring connector looped it over thru the alternator mounting bolt and now getting 9.46 directly from pos terminal .