bghnkinf350
Registered User
I was driving along today, slammed on the brakes, and the trick died. Try starting it and am having a helluva time. I tightened up all my terminals, and after some work, got her started.
I got the truck home, and started digging deeper. I have aftermarket clamp on battery clamps on both of the secondary battery cables. Both of the clamps were loose where the battery bolts to them, although I tightened them about a month or two ago. The negative cable on the primary battery is also clamp on and was also loose and hot. All have been tightened up. I checked the resistances of the battery terminals and found no problems on 3 posts, but the positive post to terminal had about 3k ohms resistance. I took it off and found the positive post was pitted and black. I wire brushed the post and terminal, put the terminal back on and got no resistance. I started the truck a few times and checked again. I had a few ohms resistance.
So.....question is, what is causing the pitting and loosening of the terminals?
Thanks for any help!
I got the truck home, and started digging deeper. I have aftermarket clamp on battery clamps on both of the secondary battery cables. Both of the clamps were loose where the battery bolts to them, although I tightened them about a month or two ago. The negative cable on the primary battery is also clamp on and was also loose and hot. All have been tightened up. I checked the resistances of the battery terminals and found no problems on 3 posts, but the positive post to terminal had about 3k ohms resistance. I took it off and found the positive post was pitted and black. I wire brushed the post and terminal, put the terminal back on and got no resistance. I started the truck a few times and checked again. I had a few ohms resistance.
So.....question is, what is causing the pitting and loosening of the terminals?
Thanks for any help!