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Subject: Re: [T3] Complete Electrical Shutdown > On 4 May 2001, at 15:16, Matt Small wrote: > > > The battery posts should actually stick up past the tops of the > clamps on both terminals. If they do not, loosen and remove the > clamp bolts and spread the clamps with a large screwdriver until > they will drop all the way down on the posts, then tighten them > carefully in place. > > DO NOT hammer the clamps onto the posts: This will break the > metal to plastic seal on the battery case and allow acid to start to > seep out and eat away the cable. This is a fragile point on your > battery. If you break it, you won't see the problem, but a year from > now you will see the effects. > > If you have a voltmeter you can look to see where you have voltage > drops and those places will be your bad connections. > > It is POSSIBLE that it is a battery problem. Check the voltage from > post to post (not clamp to clamp) on the battery to see what you > get. > > - A related story in respect to this problem: My wife called me one sunday morning that her car had made a "bang" under the hood, and wouldn't start. I went to the parking lot where she was at, and raised the hood. The whole top was gone off the battery. What had happened, was that the battery had a post that was broken, internally in the battery. When she hit the starter, there was a spark that ignited hydrogen gas in the battery, and there was a hydrogen explosion destroying the battery. Since it was a sunday morning, The only store open to get a battery was Sears. Installed the new battery, stopped by the car wash, washed the engine, and took the remains of the old battery back to Sears for exchange. They didn't want to touch it.... This may be your problem, a loose post inside the battery. See if you can wiggle the posts. they should be solid. Russ Wolfe russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe