quick battery question
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Burning Brakes
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quick battery question
ok so here's a doozy of a situation...my wife was trying to jump the vette the other day while I wasn't home so she could reposition the car and get two in the garage. well she crossed the jumper cables and fried the battery and I don't know what else.
I went and got a new battery to try and pray that's all it was and in my hasty installation i touched the socket wrench to the positive post while tighetening the negative...so did I just re-fry my new battery? or is there something else keeping it from starting now? possibly the wire from the positive terminal to the alternator? any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. not much of an electronics wizards.
I went and got a new battery to try and pray that's all it was and in my hasty installation i touched the socket wrench to the positive post while tighetening the negative...so did I just re-fry my new battery? or is there something else keeping it from starting now? possibly the wire from the positive terminal to the alternator? any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. not much of an electronics wizards.
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I would delete this post, and place it under the tech/performance section. There's a lot of guys there sharper than I am on this stuff.
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I don't think you re-fryed your new battery but she probably did some serious damage. I expect that she melted the fusible links down by the starter that supply power to the whole electrical system.
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The good news is that it didn't burn to the ground. Seen alot of damage done over the years when proper jumper cable hook-up procedures wern't followed.
Also...Forgive the wife. She probably feels terrible.
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the easiest way to check is to use a couple of brad size nails and place one into the wire on each side of the links, turn the key to the on position and see if you can get any current passage. no current, the links have been broken and the harness or the links replaced. they are there to protect the starter circuit and the solenoid.
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ok so here's a doozy of a situation...my wife was trying to jump the vette the other day while I wasn't home so she could reposition the car and get two in the garage. well she crossed the jumper cables and fried the battery and I don't know what else.
I went and got a new battery to try and pray that's all it was and in my hasty installation i touched the socket wrench to the positive post while tighetening the negative...so did I just re-fry my new battery? or is there something else keeping it from starting now? possibly the wire from the positive terminal to the alternator? any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. not much of an electronics wizards.
I went and got a new battery to try and pray that's all it was and in my hasty installation i touched the socket wrench to the positive post while tighetening the negative...so did I just re-fry my new battery? or is there something else keeping it from starting now? possibly the wire from the positive terminal to the alternator? any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. not much of an electronics wizards.
If nothing else is turning on (lights-horn)
I'm guessing you have a bad wire (terminals?) from the starter to the battery or the battery to the ground.
Years ago- I had a Triumph TR4- my first car. The guy at "Sears" put in a new battery...As I was driving home my amp gauge was reading backwards. He had put the battery in wrong. The Triumph was a positive ground car!!! When I got home, I just swapped the cables and had no problems at all.
Richard
Last edited by Richard454; Dec 31, 2010 at 09:43 PM.
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