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RE: [T3] Jump starting


On 27 Jan 2004 at 13:57, Gamboa, Gary wrote:

> Would this apply if the car your jumping the battery 
> from was hooked up wrong; but the T3 was hooked up correctly?

It's hard to say. Then it becomes a question of which battery was stronger 
which direction the jumper car's generator was trying to push the current. 
Sometimes reversing the battery can reverse the polarization on the generator 
so that the whole car can be running reverse polarity. In that case it's just 
the same as reversing the jumper cables.

This really is just too hypothetical. What have you done and what seems to be 
the problem now.

> How could you tell if the computer was ruined. 

Car won't start. Don't get the right relay clicks when you turn the key on. 
Don't get the right clicks when you push the throttle down (listening to the 
injectors of the unstarted engine, 70-73 only.)

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Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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