Finding parasitic draw - 80s 4Runner

RatLabGuy

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May 18, 2005
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Churchville, MD
Chasing down a parasitic draw that slowly kills my battery.
Sitting w/ everything off, no radio installed and the center bezel removed, I measure 41.5mA between the negative battery terminal and lead.
Its not a huge amount but I'm like to find out where this juice is going.
On the fuse block under hood by the p-side fender if I remove the "AM1" 40A fuse it drops by about 12mA. I have no idea what this fuse is but I can probably hunt it down.
I then pulled each remaining fuse, both in the udner hood block and the block under the drive side kick panel - no change in draw. Suggests there's another circuit somewhere...
But... where? Is there a 3rd panel somewhere I don't know about? Any other suggestions where to look?
 
pull the relays and check
 
If you measure current with a multimeter on the fuses you can pinpoint the circuit no need to pull fuses
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