[T3] I must be losing my mind , Interstate battery content
Bobsnotch at aol.com
Bobsnotch at aol.com
Tue Jul 18 20:08:35 PDT 2017
In a message dated 7/18/2017 1:13:45 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
catnine09 at dslextreme.com writes:
What I meant to say was they way things are made today I've reached the
point where I have to check everything . Just like all parts many get to
either rebuilt their VW engines or ties rod ends . People working at these
parts houses don't seem to know much at all. Now I check the level which
this last time allowed me to see the one was leaking .
Even though I knew better Autozone just telling me if I remove the caps
they will break so I didn't try until after the battery just quit level
was
well below the plates and they came right off . I hadn't bought a battery
in
years and even though they looked the same as far as the 2 caps plus
working
at ford dealers if a battery died they were more into selling or prorating
so no one working there checked not like years ago .
I got my batteris from the ford dealership all were interstate rebranded
autolight /motorcraft and I killed one by not checking the level .
Realized
one day when I connected a shop battery jumper and the one cap blew off
that they were removable .
Oh, I don't blame you for checking, especially since it's your only
car/transportation. In Rob's case (my son) , he's got 2 other vehicles, IF he
really needed something. Or, he could also get a hold of me if he needed
something to drive, as I've got a few sitting around here too. But, in our case,
we were trying to get an engine (and car) to run that hadn't fired off in
a while. His car had been a runner, but we tore it down, and did a bunch of
revision work. then we added a slightly larger engine (a small 1.7 liter
T-4 engine out of a 914-4) that had not been ran in years (on my end and
Keith had stored it as well).
We changed a bunch of stuff including the trans axle and the rear subframe
(converted the swing axle to IRS with bolt on T-3 parts), and this combo
had never been ran together. He had re-used his starter, but the engine
barely turned over on a new Walmart battery, so we changed the starter, and it
didn't help. Got the new battery from O'Reilly's, and it turned over, but
felt that it was dragging/battery was low on charge. Charged it up, and it's
been good to go.
I know we should have been testing things, but we had 4 days to get the car
up and running for him to take to our annual "cruise night" (I was still
working on the wiring Sunday, and we changed an alt belt right before he
left since it broke). We still have plans on getting it ready to go to the
2018 T-3 Invasion. In fact he's been sandblasting and I've been slicking the
car in preparation for paint. This is a side project for me, that's been
eating up time I should be using elsewhere, but it's my kids goal to take the
car to it's 2nd Invasion (he and his wife and it attended the 2008 T-3
Invasion (he's had the car since 2002)), where it won Artist's choice" award in
it's first outing. Keith gave Rob a hard time for it being so modified,
but the truth was it was closer to being "stock" than Keith's 65 Notch. And
now, it's even more correct. :O
Sorry for getting off tangent.
Bob 65 Notch w/Factory Sunroof converted to IRS
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