Today being a sick day, I mustered up some strength to work on my ute.

Since the time I bought it roughly a year ago, there has always been some sort of electrical problem where the battery drains out flat every 2 or 3 days unless I drive it a fair distance in between to charge it up. Very annoying.

Replaced the battery...problem still there.
Tested the alternator...runs at 13.8 volts constant when engine is running.

After having a flat battery all last week (arghhhh), I decided to look around at some wires even though I don't really know anything about auto electrics.

In my travels, I found two very heavy gauge black wires that were cut and stuffed in a very small opening underneath the tray directly where the sports bar once was located. I found this suspicious so I started tracing the wires which ran the whole length of the ute underneath and up into the engine bay where they were connected to some sort of relay with a ton more smaller wires coming out of it and one directly to the battery terminal with a 20 amp fuse intact in between.

I took these wires out, and traced the rest of the smaller wires which most ran inside the cabin to two switches which I have always wondered why they were there. I'm thinking that this whole setup was once some day long ago for external lights mounted on the sports bar Mad Max style.

One of the smaller wires was tapped into the driver's side headlight which has blown once before. So I disconnected that and taped up the exposed bit of wire.

Started her up and everything works just as before. I'm hoping that the battery drain problem now goes away (fingers crossed).