Shorted battery (?) question

[Richard]

A_)(&*)^Y{EP$TOJK King Pins are probably made in China..

These are made in England. The issue is the machine was built in 1987. How much rust can bond inside the .0000000000000001 tolerance?

The axle is roughly 3" x 7" with the roughly 2" hole for the Kingpin. It's been a bugger. You know....always have a "Plan B"??? Well, I'm on "Plan W" right now.

Bought a 30 ton bottle jack, got a fabricator who's designing and going to build a frame that will go around the axle, hold the jack under the pin and (hopefully) allow us to "simply" (HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA inhale, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA....snort, inhale HAHAHAHAHAHA) push it out.

I'm already eyeballing the idea of trying AGAIN to drill it out (it laughed at his magnetic drill & annular bit) and if that doesn't work, remove OTHER wheel and simply remove the entire axle to take it to his shop or heavy machinery shop. Only thing is, I understand this axle is going to weigh several hundred pounds and I have to remove the (optional) front weights that are bolted under the nose of the machine.

 

[Richard]

Try your charger on a battery that is starting a vehicle to insure it was not damaged, but my bet is the battery gave its last.

Good stuff but nope. I don't know how old it is, came from brother in law (which means HE probably bought it used at a junk yard)

Old battery is out, new battery is in. Old battery is already in my trunk for when I go back into town....I'll get my core charge back.

Hands are washed of this battery & situation!!

 

[Industrial Toys]

If you had another battery and a 12 volt conventional light bulb, you could try and charge the dead battery a bit using the bulb in series to regulate current.

 

[The Fred]

ANY chance you mistakenly had your charger hooked up backwards?

Sounds stupid but a battery that is completely discharged can be charged if hooked up backwards, if that's the case you could have had a reverse polarity battery.

Have seen it a couple of times over the years in the automotive industry.

 

[Gary Fowler]

With the newer smart chargers, a dead battery can not be charged. If that happens to me, I take a jumper cable and hook up to a good battery, then hook up the charger. The good battery puts enough juice in the old one for the charger to sense a voltage and it will then start charging. Always put a slow charge back into a dead battery and most times the battery will work fine after a 24-48 hour charge cycle.