Ouch, that's shocking!

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rockola1971

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I highly doubt you are getting a 12vdc shock. Its either static electricity caused by the dry winter air and friction of your ass and back going across your seats or you have an alternator that has diodes leaking A/C current to your battery and power distribution system. Your alternator actually makes A/C current and its the diodes inside it that convert the a/c to 12v dc. Check your batter with engine running while meter is set on AC voltage. What does it show? I have also seen a bad ignition coil that refused to open up but did partially short to ground and energize chassis ground with high tension spark plug voltage but that was on a 79 Chevy 1/2 ton with HEI.
 

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lol if you had a shock from the truck it would not be slight. No matter how much stuff you have running through that thing something would fail before you felt a shock or catch fire. Most likely static as stated above, I get hit all the time mostly when opening the door from the outside and inside or rear hatch.

That being said doing the big 3 and all that good stuff won't hurt if you have been adding more juice. Also look into adding 2 batteries.
 
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Thanks guys, I will keep an eye out and get you know. I am still thinking about doing the "bid three," just in case.
 
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I highly doubt you are getting a 12vdc shock. Its either static electricity caused by the dry winter air and friction of your ass and back going across your seats or you have an alternator that has diodes leaking A/C current to your battery and power distribution system. Your alternator actually makes A/C current and its the diodes inside it that convert the a/c to 12v dc. Check your batter with engine running while meter is set on AC voltage. What does it show? I have also seen a bad ignition coil that refused to open up but did partially short to ground and energize chassis ground with high tension spark plug voltage but that was on a 79 Chevy 1/2 ton with HEI.

I will report back what I find, thank you!
 

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