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LD1
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Makes no sense to me either.
Instead of the woed "warm", insert the word "drain" and it makes perfect sense.
Because that is all it will do on a cold winter day. Help to drain the battery faster.
Allthough if it is indeed true, Maybe in the winter I'll start leaving my dome light on. That way the battery is already warm the next morning when I go to work:laughing:
Instead of the woed "warm", insert the word "drain" and it makes perfect sense.
Because that is all it will do on a cold winter day. Help to drain the battery faster.
Allthough if it is indeed true, Maybe in the winter I'll start leaving my dome light on. That way the battery is already warm the next morning when I go to work:laughing:
JDgreen227
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Not a lick of sense to me.What would a few amps of headlight current do to warm a battery that a few hundred amps of starting current would not? Maybe your BIL is the GM engineer who designed GM's running lights on their pickups and Suburbans. You know, the ones running up and down the road with only one light working.:laughing:
Good one!!! :thumbsup: Actually he was an engineer working on the original GM electric car, until they ended that project.
JDgreen227
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Or you could leave the headlights on too, and your battery would be warm enough you could drive a block or two on the starter cranking power alone...yeah, right.
wdchyd
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:confused2:...........Care to explain this intelligent quote......:confused2:......
JDgreen227
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"Intelligent....???" I am more confused than you are.
wdchyd
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Are we STILL blaming all of our troubles on Clinton..??.....:confused2:
forgeblast
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When i had my dodge I had used the dodgetalk forum a lot to figure out its many problems. DodgeTalk.com is a great place for info.
Intelligent? How about factual. :laughing:
Well since you want to put it that way big shot do your own research on the subject.
In the future you might try a different approach when talking to people who you don't know they probably know more than you and remember when you open your mouth you show how smart you are.
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rockinmywaypa
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Here's an update on my son's truck. We went to the wreckers and got another alternator, so far everything seems right. This truck is closing in on half a million kilometers so what was said about brushes makes a lot of sense. On a side note I learned a trick using booster cables that when it is so cold out and your battery has only enough oomph to hardly turn over the motor that you can take your cables and for a half of a second short out the battery which apparently warms it up and increases the cranking amps. I've never had to try it since our batterys have always been up to snuff to roll the motor over.
At today's shop rates, 80 an hour average around here it sure is great to be able to hit on you all for diagnostic help.
At today's shop rates, 80 an hour average around here it sure is great to be able to hit on you all for diagnostic help.
jinman
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Ron, please do not try this. That's a good way to blow up a battery, especially if it is having problems and might have an internal problem. Batteries can fill with hydrogen and be virtual bombs waiting to blow. When you short terminal-to-terminal with a jumper, an internal arc or sudden heating of a point of poor contact might explode the hydrogen.
I had that very thing happen with a 3-year old Interstate battery (one of two on my diesel). I was having starting problems and cleaned my terminals. When I turned the key to start the truck, it must have arced inside and that battery exploded with a huge BOOM! Acid was everywhere over my engine and hood. I grabbed a waterhose and immediately rinsed off the acid. That saved my truck, but I still have some discoloration of plastic parts to remind me how lucky I was to be sitting in my driveway with a pressurized hose nearby.
Can you imagine what would happen if you were standing there holding a jumper and shorting out the battery? You'd be covered in acid and never be the same. Always, always treat batteries with the utmost respect and don't do anything like shorting across the terminals. It's a sure recipe for disaster.
Someone is giving you bad advice. Please be safe. Your family and TBN wants you around for many years.:thumbsup:
JDgreen227
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WELL STATED !!! Thanks for posting that information !!!
Egon
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Well said Jinman. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Also note that there is a correct way of hooking up battery cables to help avoid explosions.
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rockinmywaypa
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MY BAD. A classic case of putting mouth in gear before brain is warmed up.
JDgreen227
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Not as bad as the guys that worked with me back about 1990. The warehouse I worked at had an old 6 volt Clark Carloader forktruck, it was an LP conversion, the temporary guys who drove it all smoked on the forklift, despite my orders not to. One morning the battery on the forktruck was dead, they drove my work truck over to it (diesel, two batteries, 12 volts) and tried to jump start it. Not sure if they shorted something out or if the 12 volts was just two much current, the 6 volter exploded and the guys took off running like heck, came out to me in the parking lot yelling "the fork truck blew up" they were sure the LP tank had blown up....
Fortunately there wasn't a lot of acid damage and no harm was really done, but from then on the temps NEVER, EVER smoked around the forktruck....
