Re: Stranded - Battery

[T Berk <tberk@mindspring.com>]

Slink wrote:
> 
> Last night I drove my 85 rocco to pick up my friend for a night on the
> town.  When I got to his house. I took the engine off for a minute to
> put something in the trunk.  Now when I returned to start the engine I
> gets nothing. The engine would not rotate, for some reason I thought
> that it was the battery.  Seeing that we were in a rush we went in his
> prelude.  Now today I checked my battery and I'm getting a reading of
> 11.56 also the battery is leaking.  I'm about to go to exchange my
> battery, but I would like to know if I'm tackling this problem correctly
> or if the problem lies somewhere else.
> 
> thank you
> 85 scirocco wolfburg edition



OK, 
lets get some details. (Sorry, but my imagination needs some more
granularity. :)

How did you measure the voltage, across the battery terminals? Or some
were else?

Was it still in place or out of the car?

Did you get the car started at all, say with a jump?

If so, did you measure what the Alt was doing? 

Exactly were is the leak coming from at the battery? Is it out of the
tops like an overflow? Or is it split like on on of the seams.

My 1st take is that the battery is toast, it needs replacing because
it's mechanically defective and that should do it.

prePS- SInce battery fluid is such a nasty acid you will want to wash
down the area in around with a backing soda solution. Try not to just
sprinkle it around because it'll get places you didn't want. I'd think
to rinse well after a bit of a scrub and then reinstall the new battery.

Or course this would be an opportunity to recondition the grounding
points and wiring associated with the charging and Alt.

hth,
TBerk

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