XPost: sci.electronics.design, sci.electronics.equipment, sci.electronics.misc   
   XPost: sci.electronics.repair   
   From: NONONOmisc07@bigfoot.com   
      
   On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 06:58:13 -0500, micky    
   wrote:   
      
   >**I also bought a new battery, but it's cleaning it that made it work   
   >fine, until months later, I left the headlights on all night. Jumped the   
   >battery and ran the car an hour but it still wouldn't start the next   
   >day.  I had to crawl underneath, take the cable off, clean everything   
   >and put it back.    Until the next time I left the lights on.   
   >Eventually I learned, even in good clothes, to just stick my arm   
   >underneath, grab the battery cable and pull it back and forth, rotating   
   >on the starter motor stud, once or twice, and then the car would run fine   
   >until the next time I left the lights on.   
      
   This sounds like the nut was loose that held the cable on.  I'm never   
   quite sure how much to tighten nuts but it was pretty tight.  It's   
   mostly that I had a lot of leverage pulling on the cable 3 and 4 inches   
   from the pivot point.   
      
   And the mechnanics who changed the starter twice should have known how   
   tight to make the nut  (At least the dealer said he changed everything   
   twice.   When I moved to the city my brother was in, 3 years later, a   
   year after he left the army, the dealer was out of business!)   
      
   I thought about changing the battery cable for one that might not be so   
   touchy, but instead I found a buzzer that buzzed if I left the   
   headlights on.   That prevented both the ongoing problem and the first   
   day's dead battery.   Problem solved.   
      
   Do you all think a different battery cable might have worked better?   
      
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