Have you checked the battery with a gravity tester, the turkey baster
thingy?? What you describe is typical of a battery with one bad cell. If
its 13 volts at rest, I'd want to be sure that a bad connection isn't the
problem, however.
Aloha
Peter
>From: "John Bridgett" <john.bridgett@btinternet.com>
>Reply-To: lro@works.team.net
>To: <lro@Works.Team.Net>
>Subject: LRO: RE: Battery question
>Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 07:14:22 +0100
>
> >>(I knew that; it does warn "Made in England")<<
>
>Obviously the lead and acid technology is far too complex for your
>under developed countries to understand #8o)
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-lro@Works.Team.Net [mailto:owner-lro@Works.Team.Net]On
>Behalf Of David Scheidt
>Sent: 09 April 2001 04:04
>To: land-rover-owner
>Subject: LRO: Battery question
>
>
>I've got this battery that doesn't hold a charge. Sort of. What it
>does is not produce starting current, but only if it's been sitting.
>It's got 13 something volts, hit the starter and the starter doesn't
>spin. I'm not sufficently super human to be able to report what the
>voltage is when the starter isn't. If I start it with the handy-dandy
>hand crank, it will then start with the starter. This is true even if
>the engine hasn't run enough to possibly recharge the battery. If it
>sits for an hour or three, it'll still start. Overnight, it won't. I'm
>quite certain I'm not draining the battery -- it happens even if the
>battery is disconnected. Clearly, the battery is junk. (I knew that;
>it does warn "Made in England") Is there anything worth trying to fix
>it?
>
>--
>dscheidt@tumbolia.com
>Bipedalism is only a fad.
>
>
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