Sentences with phrase «battery post»

So it is a good idea to inspect and clean battery posts regularly.

A battery with the same dimensions, battery post orientation and capacity could be used as a replacement.

Just remember, there's often corrosion on battery posts.

My guess is that the practice of connecting recipient's ground to the chassis rather than the negative battery post simply protects from igniting some minute leakage from the battery itself.

If instead, your positive battery post has only one heavy red wire leading to the solenoid, but the same stud on the solenoid also has a smaller red wire (still much heavier than most of the other wire under your hood) that leads off to the fuseblock or into the wire loom, then that wire is your suspect.

The most common cause of battery explosions upon start - up is dirty battery posts and cables, says Sam Memmolo, a master mechanic in Douglasville, Ga., and a nationally recognized automotive repair expert.

BLACK goes to GROUND [usually a metal bracket or large bolt head that's attached to the engine well sheet metal], and RED, to the positive post on the battery

Clean battery posts.

Another important safety precaution is to attach the negative jumper cable for the dead battery to an unpainted metal portion of the car frame, rather than to the negative battery post.

Thanks to: Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, Northeast Southtowns Solid Waste Management Board, Republic Services, SUNY Erie Community College; NOCO Energy Corp.; The Battery Post, Inc.; NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation

Support for both events is provided by ECC, NOCO Energy Corp., The Battery Post, Inc., and the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation.

Support for the event is also provided by Erie Community College, Elwood Fire Protection, Inc., NOCO Energy Corp., The Battery Post, Inc., and the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation.

«It's like putting a camera inside a battery and watching what happens, as opposed to working on a battery post mortem,» Mehdi said.

But when it comes to the really important things — how antilock brakes work, what to do if you hit a patch of wet leaves, how to clean your battery posts — were sadly lacking.

What probably happened was that your clamps weren't making good electrical contact with the battery posts.

If the positive battery post has one heavy red wire leading to the starter solenoid and a smaller red wire leading to the fuseblock (or into the wire loom), then that smaller red wire is your suspected perpetrator - it may have a poor connection at either the battery post clamp or its other end, at the fuseblock.

Connect the meter leads to the battery posts (positive with positive and negative with negative).

During the emissions part they hook up to the battery posts.

You want as much metal - metal surface area as possible between the battery posts and the terminals.

If you see corrosion on the battery posts, the leads, or in the vicinity, that's why.

This will push apart the metal - metal contact at the battery posts.

Touch one of your leads to the negative battery post, and touch your other lead to the negative battery cable, observe the reading

Loosen the hold down nut and bolt from the negative battery cable end and remove the connector from the battery post.