Hello. You probably short circuited your battery hooking it up, without question, that is, connected the positive terminal to the negative terminal, either directly, or through some wiring. It's time to take your battery out, and look for trouble. There is probably exposed wiring somewhere else that made the shortcircuit. This is what you should look for. I'd examine the main battery cables closely for places where it could accidentally touch something metal, looking for worn insulation and scorching. You're lucky nothing caught fire. Another possibility is you hooked up your battery backwards, but you wouldn't do that, right? Chances are the reason the car ran after you reconnected the battery has to do with accidentally moving the trouble spot around so it wasn't making contact anymore. At any time, you could move it back, and the trouble can return. I would not be content that the problem fixed itself, I'd hunt it down. I'd have my fire extinguisher there. A short circuited battery puts out a lot of power. Rick Gendreau --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Enid/Jeremiah <hispanicangeleyes@xxxx> wrote: > Ok everyone. Here is one that's not quite as crazy as my last couple of posts. > > Until I buy a battery kill switch, I have been taking the time to dettach the postitive lead to my battery every time I turn off my DeLorean. Well, last I used it was 2 days ago, and for Christmas as a unique present I wanted to give my Mom a ride in it since she had never ridden in a DeLorean yet. Well, I went to hook the battery up - first connecting the positive lead, then the negative. Using a socket wrench, I went to start turning the battery bolt on the negative side, and sparks flew all over. I don't mean one or two - I mean yellow, orange, red sparks went flying everywhere. To say the least, I was spooked, but I went on and attached the cables securely. Went to turn the car on, *click* - no start. You could hear the car turning over, but no vroom vroom. Went and tightened even more - *click* nothing. Did this about 5 more times to no avail. > > To say the least, I was irritated and went back into the house in defeat. My fiance as she konked out to sleep suggested I undo both cables and try it again. Of course, I didn't want to, and I sarcastically told her that was futile. However, I swallowed my pride and volunteered to try one more time stating "I'm not expecting any miracles". Went out and decided for fun to switch the battery bolts. I connected the negative first, then the positive. I noticed that the bolt for the positive side seemed stripped, because I would get it snug and secure, and then it would just keep turning. I had no trouble unwinding the bolt out, but it never seemed to stop turning when I would try to tighten it. Anyhoo, I turned it until I felt it was nice and snug, and sat in the driver's seat saying to myself sarcastically "Whatever..." and cranked the key. VVRROOOOOOM! - to life my car came...To say the simplest, I let my lady know she was right (something some of you might want to just get > used to right now ;) ) > > My question - what the heck happened? Did I just not ever tighten it down right the last SEVEN attempts? Did I just not get a good connection? Was my battery on its last leg? Can someone give me a tip to two to keep from establishing a channel so I don't see those sparks again..? Would the battery kill switch save me this aggravation? > > I was very happy to see my car behave, but I don't want to go through that again. > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Photos - Get your photo on the big screen in Times Square > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] _____ Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DMCForum/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=Unsubscribe> * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
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