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Posted by six 5.0 (Member # 3153) on :
 
I cleaned the terminals on my battery last night, and now my car wont start. Thier is power to the Battery, the lights come on and are bright, but when I turn the key the lights go dim and the solinoid clicks like it's not getting enough juice. All I did was take some sand paper to both terminamls and then cleaned them with bakeing soda. I think the problem is with the + termnal, when I conect the + I couldn't get a great conection, so I bought some new conectors and when I conected those it sounds like a fizz noise is comeing from in the battery. WTF could I have done, or what could this mean?????

PS. + & - are both hooked up corectly
 
Posted by Jdub07 (Member # 2728) on :
 
wierd... how old is your battary? I was thinking starter until you said your battary 'fizzled'. I'm stumped
 
Posted by hidnn.o.s. (Member # 1219) on :
 
Replace your battery
 
Posted by six 5.0 (Member # 3153) on :
 
Hmmmmm, I don't really know how old it is. I have had the car for a while. Of course, the battery has never given me any problems until I started messing with it.... But I'd have to say about 2 years or less on the battery. Would these be the symptoms of a dead battery? or a messed up starter????? [patriot]
 
Posted by six 5.0 (Member # 3153) on :
 
Replace the battery, yeah I think I will and see what happens. Hopefully that does it. [patriot]
 
Posted by 94gt (Member # 3060) on :
 
since you replaced both terminals, I would make sure that both are clean, and make sure the ground is actually grounded, and not just screwed down ovre some paint.... it needs to be a direct metal to metal contact to provide a better ground.
 
Posted by street_illegal_stang (Member # 1554) on :
 
put a volt meter to the battery and see iff you got 12v.
then check all grounds from starter and soilnoid
block to firewall
timimng cover to soilnoid. [Wink]
 
Posted by six 5.0 (Member # 3153) on :
 
Where do u recomend grounding it?????
 
Posted by six 5.0 (Member # 3153) on :
 
Fixed it guys, it was the battery [Big Grin]

Thanks for all the help.
 




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