RE: [diesel_mercedes] Battery Life ?

 

I hope you find your VAT-40 tester.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=VAT-40&_sacat=0&LH_TitleDesc=0&_sop=16

 

maybe Craigslist in the LA area?  Bill in sunny Oregon

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Subject: [diesel_mercedes] Battery Life ?

 

 

Friday morning the '84 300TD's starter groaned a little bit but no way was it going to start .

I was all the way across Los Angeles, far from my tools and I don't have a carbon pile to properly test batteries anyway, what to do ? .

 


I wanted to know : did I need a new battery or was I victim of the BOSCH alternator's common failure of failing to charge but not illuminating the charge lamp ? . or maybe even was it time to do a routine cleaning and greasing of the difficult to remove starter ? .

 

I used my coupe to take SWMBO where she needed to go and when her daughter took her out Saturday, I swapped the known good battery out of my coupe into the wagon along with the nifty little "innovia" voltage display thing I bought @ wallymart way back when I was in Texas just after hurricane katrina, when the alternator in my then '78 coupe died, plugged it into the cigarette lighter socket and it fired right up and began to charge @ 14 VDC indicating the alternator and starter were both good so we saddled up and dove to wallymart Gardena and bought a new 900 CCA battery and a pair of those felt anti corrosion washers for the posts, the old ones were still corrosion free but...

 

I'd spotted some whitish powdery stuff in the battery tray and so also bought a box of baking soda, when we got home I removed the coupe's battery from the wagon and mixed up a pail of baking soda and water, used it and my hands to clean all the corrosion off, dabbed it dry with the napkins I found and left it to dry out before installing the new battery ($135.00) and buttoning both cars up .

 

So, now I need to go find a good battery tray, bead or maybe vapor blast it, re paint it and install into the wagon .

 

SWMBO came home to a running car, I'm supposed to take her out in it to - day but she's wrapped up snoozing on this cool and drizzling Mother's Day .

 

I wonder where my heavy duty jumper cables went ? . last thing I knew they were carefully in a bag in the bottom of the coupe's trunk, I don't loan tools so I must have set them aside for something.....

 

The battery in the coupe is slightly over five years old so I'm wondering if I should be changing it before it strands me .

 

I'm also cursing the supposed friend who did God knows what with my free SUN V.A.T.40 inductive tester, a wonderful old tech tool that unlike modern battery/alternator/electrical testers doesn't have any transistors etc. to refuse to work on older vehicle systems .

-NATE

 

" Farming is easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles away "

 

 - Dwight David Eisenhower

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[diesel_mercedes] Battery Life ?

 


Friday morning the '84 300TD's starter groaned a little bit but no way was it going to start .

I was all the way across Los Angeles, far from my tools and I don't have a carbon pile to properly test batteries anyway, what to do ? .


I wanted to know : did I need a new battery or was I victim of the BOSCH alternator's common failure of failing to charge but not illuminating the charge lamp ? . or maybe even was it time to do a routine cleaning and greasing of the difficult to remove starter ? .

I used my coupe to take SWMBO where she needed to go and when her daughter took her out Saturday, I swapped the known good battery out of my coupe into the wagon along with the nifty little "innovia" voltage display thing I bought @ wallymart way back when I was in Texas just after hurricane katrina, when the alternator in my then '78 coupe died, plugged it into the cigarette lighter socket and it fired right up and began to charge @ 14 VDC indicating the alternator and starter were both good so we saddled up and dove to wallymart Gardena and bought a new 900 CCA battery and a pair of those felt anti corrosion washers for the posts, the old ones were still corrosion free but...

I'd spotted some whitish powdery stuff in the battery tray and so also bought a box of baking soda, when we got home I removed the coupe's battery from the wagon and mixed up a pail of baking soda and water, used it and my hands to clean all the corrosion off, dabbed it dry with the napkins I found and left it to dry out before installing the new battery ($135.00) and buttoning both cars up .

So, now I need to go find a good battery tray, bead or maybe vapor blast it, re paint it and install into the wagon .

SWMBO came home to a running car, I'm supposed to take her out in it to - day but she's wrapped up snoozing on this cool and drizzling Mother's Day .

I wonder where my heavy duty jumper cables went ? . last thing I knew they were carefully in a bag in the bottom of the coupe's trunk, I don't loan tools so I must have set them aside for something....

The battery in the coupe is slightly over five years old so I'm wondering if I should be changing it before it strands me .

I'm also cursing the supposed friend who did God knows what with my free SUN V.A.T.40 inductive tester, a wonderful old tech tool that unlike modern battery/alternator/electrical testers doesn't have any transistors etc. to refuse to work on older vehicle systems .

-NATE
 
" Farming is easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles away "
 
 - Dwight David Eisenhower

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