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I can see where a completly dead battery could cause a few concerns. When you manually unlock the truck (which is never a really "good" thing to do NORMALLY, unless the key has a dead battery or the vehicle battery is dead), I believe you may get the alarm going off AND the engine disabled, as the AAM may assume the truck has been broken in to, once you hook up the jumpers. SO, be ready to lock/unlock the truck with the remote key. You should also make sure the key is inserted into the ignition AFTER there is battery power, as once again the imobillizer won't be active until after there is some battery voltage present. So in effect, what I want you to do, is assuming the truck is dead (no unlocking with the remote), go ahead and manually unlock the door. Then pop the hood, and hook up the jumper cables (if you want to try starting it before jumping, fine, but then remove the key from the ignition). Hook up the cables and anticipate the alarm will go off, you can then do a lock/unlock with the remote. Then you put the key in the ignition and the truck should start fine.
Gilly
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