One time I was riding with my brother, we heard a strange noise coming
from under the hood of his Ford, we pulled over at the next store and
opened the hood to check it out, the battery had swelled to 3 times it's
normal size, if we had went any further it would have blown and probably
taken a good portion of the truck with it, evidently the voltage regulator
went haywire and was charging the battery at about 30 volts.....
Bruce
>
> The battery in my wifes GrandAm did the same thing one night. We
> drove over an hour for some really killer BBQ back when we were
> still dating. When we came out afterwards, the car did nothing.
> We got a jump from a guy and hauled butt since we were not sure
> exactly what was going on. Once we got home and had some light,
> we found that the battery had ruptured and spewed acid all over
> the battery tray and fender. Some quick work with the baking soda
> and lots of water kept it from doing anything worse than suface
> rust though.
>
> John
> 98 Dak 4X4 Sport,5.2L,Auto,T&H Package,Power Everything,Nerf
> Bars,Billet Grill, Rhino Liner,DDBC
>
> I have never seen a battery shit the bed all of a sudden like
> that. Most
> battery failures I've seen came on with some warning (slow
> starts, etc.).
>
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