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Fixed. 900 1995

posted by  RepairmanJackal on  Sat Aug 21 09:53 CST 2010
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Thanks for the reference.

I checked it all over again at the battery and noticed that there was some melted plastic on the positive terminal. I removed the connectors, wire-brushed everything and reattached and re-torqued the connection. That fixed it.

I find it a bit troubling that I've had to do this twice in 18 months because power was completely lost. Should I used some dialectic grease on the battery terminals?

I did take the opportunity to apply a thick layer of insulated along the positive cables as close to the connector as possible. I could see that there was more exposed connector metal along the terminal head than I thought safe. It looked like there had been some arcing. There are a couple of "extra' wires attached there that make the head pretty big. Hopefully the extra insulation will help.






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