RE: [T3] battery dead?, hot VR

["Keith Park" <topnotch@nycap.rr.com>]

The Delco's will, or did... I consistently get 9 years out of my
interstates, the one in the Notch now is 9, and still good.

Keith



I've never had any battery that lasted 10 years!

On 6/15/07, Virginia & Peter <ginger@parkerdurost.org> wrote:
>     Phillip was running a little rough at idle yesterday, then this
> morning the battery was dead.  Beautiful 60deg. morning, didn't leave on
> any lights, but could just barely turn over once.  Rolled started it to
> get to work, roll started it to get home.  When I got home, and tried to
> restart it would only do the one rev.  The newer Bosch VR was HOT!
> Nothing in engine bay amiss, generator wiring and brushes good.
>     Battery is over 10 years old, but has never so much as wavered, even
> in the winter.  Voltmeter shows ~11V.  If the battery "looses a cell",
> would it make the VR hot?  I guess a new battery is overdue, but I hate
> just throwing parts at a problem.
>
> Peter Parker
> '66 Square; Phillip
> Portland, OR
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