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With the cold weather arriving my starter was cranking kinda slow. Except the NAPA battery is only a year and a half old. My car was in the water when Hurricane Irene came through so I thought I'd check both battery cables for corrosion.
Well, as I dug in I was amazed to find the positive cable rubbing on one of the A/C pipes (just to the right of the battery). The cable insulation was completely worn through! The wires were actually touching the A/C pipe! Now you think that my car wouldn't run right and the battery would be dead every morning. But for some reason I was able to start and drive. (I'm speculating the A/C system isn't grounded very well) There was a weird clicking when I made right turns that has disappeared (I thought it was a C/V joint). Also my ABS brakes would activate sometimes for no reason (I was braking lightly on dry pavement).
You might be wondering: There are plastic corrugated covers on the cables, why didn't it protect the cable? Well there are covers but on my car, one cover stopped one inch to the right of the pipe and another started one inch to the left. I think it might have been a bad factory installation! If there was one place that cable had to be protected that was the place.
I have replaced the cable and of course made sure it's protected. The slow cranking has disappeared! Also I drove the car yesterday and I couldn't get the other 2 problems to show themselves. Very interesting. All you guys with the '95 - '99 3.8 engine, check your positive cable for damage.
Andy
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Posted 14 December 2011 - 08:17 AM
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Posted 15 December 2011 - 02:38 AM
Seen it before as well but it was my neutral that did it.
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Posted 24 December 2011 - 12:14 PM
yeah this happened to mine years ago. i have had it on my car do main web page as a warning as well... but that entire web site is blocked on this forum...
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Posted 24 December 2011 - 02:22 PM
Wow, thanks for the tip!
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Posted 03 January 2012 - 07:39 PM
hey was looking thru my pics and found the pic of the battery cable that rubbed away all those years ago (2004)... here it is for all to enjoy.
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1996 Monte Carlo Z34 (PB-LQ1 14.81@92.2) Mods: P&P Intake/TB,3.73's,L67 injectors, UDP, 2.5" Exhaust - RIP LQ1 10/3/2011
3800 Swap: 3.29 gears, HV3, SD headers, Porting heads/LIM/Blower, HV TB, SLP 1.8RR, 105#, Si Valves, STB, Eibach, GR2's
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Posted 03 January 2012 - 08:34 PM
Yah digital, that's pretty much how mine looked! My Monte is running much better now. A strange clicking noise when I turned right is now gone. Who knows what it was.
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