sounds like a brand new defective battery, there's no way you could kill the battery with only the ground cable connected .... unless you had something shorting the positive post to ground - disconnected the cable at the battery or at the starter?

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
Some TF series details & TF heater pics