RE: Battery gods strike again!

["Buchholz, Steven" <Steven.Buchholz@kla-tencor.com>]

I had a tough to track electrical problem on the '88 5kCSQA once ...
sometimes couldn't get enough juice to crank the starter, most of the time
OK.  I convinced myself that it was the battery, so I drove the QTC over to
the wife's work to do a battery swap (it didn't start for her, but it
started fine for me when I got there) ... I pulled up the seat and as I was
starting to loosen the terminals I noticed that the ground lead seemed
awfully loose ... it had come loose at the point where it bolts to the
frame!  I'' hate to think of the possibilities if I didn't have a properly
vented battery in there!

Steve Buchholz
San Jose, CA (USA)

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	When I got home Friday I immediately took the back seat out, after
seeing
	that the car wasn't going to start.  As I removed the seat I must of
hit
	the cable and noticed that the interrior lights came back on.  I
grabbed
	the positive cable which was 'loose as a goose.'  Tightened said
cable and
	started car - everything is O.K. now.  Wife had heavy boxes of books
on
	seat for one day - this could have caused the problem?