Too Much?

jeffcat · Dec 17, 2015

Stopped at Auto Zone today to get a part for my Expedition. Saw this on their push cart. I guess somebody's Altinator is putting out a little too much voltage? Talk about Boiled! You could smell acid fumes all over the place. The side of the case was even bulged.

gab · Dec 17, 2015

Haven't been to the zone in over 20 years, had a well used 83 S-10 4x4, over a couple months time it needed a fuel pump and a starter, didn't want to spend the money on genuine Gm parts, fuel pump just hammered and the starter wouldn't crank under about 35 degrees. They replaced the parts but a starter and fuel pump is not the kind of thing you want install twice on those trucks.

JimS · Dec 17, 2015

I lost the voltage regulator on a DOdge diesel and blew a battery up. It was a Die Hard (I know, but it came with it and I always have credit on it when I need to replace it). Sears still replaced it. It was loud. You could immediately smell it. I thought someone was shooting. Some goo came out. Sears said that wasn't possible as it was a waterless model, still something ran out.

notjustair · Dec 17, 2015

When I was a kid we used an 8N to push snow in the barnyard. One day I pushed snow for a couple of hours (single digits out, I would say). I shut it off west of the house about 200 feet to go eat lunch. I got just about to the house and heard a huge explosion. The whole left side of the battery had blown off. Must have been faulty as it was the first and last time anything like that happened with the old Ford.

I quick jumped back on it and put it in the shed so that we could be inside to take it apart. Seems like we never could get a good 6 volt battery.

rossow (mn) · Dec 17, 2015

I had a 6-volt battery explode on one of my 8Ns last winter. I had it hooked up to the 2-amp, 6-volt maintainer setting on a fairly new name-brand 2/6/30 charger. The battery was only a couple of years old and had a full charge when I hooked it up. I have no idea what happened or when, but I went out one day and found the side blown out, all three caps blown off and acid everywhere, including splattered all over the underside of the steel lean-to roof about 7 feet above. I've (carefully) used the charger successfully on all settings, both 6- and 12-volt, since the explosion, and I've had no problems with the new battery I put in. All I can figure is that the battery had an internal short. I'm glad the tractor didn't have shiny new paint for the acid to ruin.

Russ from MN · Dec 18, 2015

I have always been under the impression that if a battery is nearly full of water it will minimize the chances and the size of an explosion. Of course if they are being overcharged it's hard to keep them full of water!

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