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, Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:57:39
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Nick - - Get some jumper cables and your other car, or a willing friend, neighbor or stranger's, and try starting it while boosting the battery. Report what happens.
Or at least PLEASE, as Saana asked and as I suggested a week ago on your earlier post, CHECK the terminals at the battery and clean them if bad. They can look fine from the top but have a coating of corrosion on post and inside clamp that cuts way down on current passing. And they can seem to be tight on the post while actually being just barely set there. And they can be corroded inside the outer insulation jacket of the cable.
And a tight-seeming bolt on a terminal that has corrosion is sometimes not really tight but bottomed out on corrosion filling the threads, hardened up like rock. If so, remove nut, knock bolt out of terminal, drop in baking soda-water mixture, or clean on a wire brush wheel, or use an old knife to cut the corrosion out of the thread grooves, oil it and run nut in and out, and reassemble.
If either of your terminal ends is one of those add-on repair terminals, they are junk - - corrosion happens very quickly on the end of the copper strands up under the steel plate that holds end onto cable, where you don't see it. Short term fix is remove that plate, scrape it clean, cut cable back another 3/4" or so, trim insulation and reattach. Then order a new cable with made-on end.
posted by 72.65.119...
, Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:29:53
, Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:13:18, Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:57:39
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