Yea - honestly its all in if any one has every tried to put them wrong and bungled up the bolts. When I was doing highway recovery and someone called with a GM product, that was the first thing I suggested. I would say look - I'm happy to come get you but if your not afraid to pop the hood, wiggle the cables on the side of the battery then try to start it. 1/2 the time I gave away a perfectly good paying job saying that, and man they were they always amazed. One guy called, said he didn't have a clue what was going on, It was hot and I was dealing with a greyhound bus that wouldn't start, I told him the secret wiggle he said thanks, he tried it , it worked. I hung up and didn't think about it again. Two weeks later I get a check in the mail for $250 bucks and a note that said you saved my vacation thanks.
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I must be the only person who never had trouble with 'em. My '88 GMC S15 > had side terminals and I never had any issue whatever. The '88 GMC 1500 > farmtruck had 'em and we never had any trouble with that. > > My friend in college had an S10 Blazer and THAT had troubles but it was > with the starter end of the positive cable. I fixed that one day in the > parking lot with nothing but a crescent wrench... I needed it to drive to > Maine (from MA, about 400 miles round trip) so I could renew the > registration on my S15 that some *&^%! cop had towed since the registration > was 2 days expired. > > -Curt > > Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:35:33 -0600 > From: Fmiser <fmi...@gmail.com> > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] how to check block heater > Message-ID: <20100110193533.08ad5da2.fmi...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > > Kaleb C. Striplin wrote: > > > That stupid Suburban pissed me off just a little while ago. > > So I pulled into the local Walmart to fill it up with 78 worth > > of diesel because they are still selling for 2.59 everywhere > > else is 2.66-2.69, I get in it to start, click, nothing. I > > know exactly what it is, those side post battery connectors > > tend to loosen up after a while, so I go to open the hood and > > it wont open. Crap. Sometimes it will stick but if I slam > > the drivers door, it pops open. No suck luck today. I > > finally got it to open after about 5 min of messing with it. > > Jiggled the bat cable on one of the batteries, and it fired > > right up. > > I have, over the years, converted every side post to top post. > The side post just isn't rugged enough. > > I also coat the terminals (when clean) with wheel bearing > grease. No corrosion! > > -- Philip > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
