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Hi I'm Brian- and this is a quick tip that will impress the ladies we've got a 1999 Honda Civic, and the complaint with this one is that lights are pulsing.
You know, driving at night, it's just not getting enough power and I've brought it in and I was checking the alternator and the alternator was putting out 14.4 volts while running at idle with the headlights on the blower motor going high like all this load on it.
You know it's cranking out all kinds of bolts and amps, but the problem is corrosion at the positive terminal.
What's happening is because there's such corrosion at the positive terminal, the alternators not able to pump juice back into the battery batteries like a holding reservoir of power to get the engine going again.
It's part of your starting system, so I figured either it's a shorted cell or it's an alternator I'm wrong on both counts.
It's something more common than that.
This is such a common problem.
This corrosion that I have a special box that I keep battery terminals and basically everything that you'd need to fix the thing it's called a battery ends and keep it in the truck and I rescue all kinds of people with this little kit.
So if the car goes to start, it goes like lots of clicks, sounds like a machine gun or something.
You know a lot softer of course, then it's probably this.
So here's how we fix this.
The first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna disconnect the negative terminal, and the reason why is that all I want to do is take this one off and fix it.
So I don't even need to take off the negative, but here's the deal if I have this on the positive and I touch this, and it's touching something that's on the body for ground, it's gonna arc and it can short things.
So what I do is they go ahead? Something's already done.
Did the negative term won't replace that I mean so I'm gonna take the negative one off and then I can touch the positive with anything, because it's just going to be open circuit and this one's stripped is on its Payton of messua, so I just yank it off the top.
This little push twist action and off it comes I can get in here with the impact.
I can touch us and it's not gonna hurt anything.
It's good to go so this factory one is some rusted and corroded we're just gonna discard it.
We got to get it off before that can happen, so we're just gonna twist it back and forth, pull it off blow.
It turn it clean it up and get the cutter so I take the cutters.
This one has an extra little accessory thing on the side, zip that off -.
So you got one two three different cables going in there.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to craft a new one and a little freestyle and battery terminal little thing that I do but put this on the positive and then I'm going to put this on one or two of the cables, and then this one on the other one and I'm gonna bolt these in there and the reason why I do that is that there's less copper expose? You can tape them up it's further away from the battery and it doesn't wick the acid up and the summertime looks hot outside your battery sweats through these caps there's a little breather caps.
They got a hole here and a hole here to release pressure, so they don't explode because anything hot expands.
This is no exception.
You get the same thing.
So what happens? Is that acid, just kind of hangs around the battery and ultimately corrodes know that this battery is pretty clean.
It's not too bad, but probably the battery they had before this was so we're.
Gonna have to get this off of there.
Sometimes you can salvage these, and sometimes it's just not worth your time.
These are nice to keep things pretty clean, but they also keep things hidden so that you don't ever get that corrosion cleaned off in time.
You get stranded, so we're gonna clip it off.
They start necessarily the most ideal thing, but this is what I keep in the kit for cutting the copper wire.
As you go to cut this off, you're gonna have an AHA experience here.
When you look at the cable here, I'm gonna get in real clothes.
You look at the cable, you can see a little bit of white, but then the other thing I want to draw your attention.
To is that you also have a bulge here.
So when I go to cut this cable and you know strip the jacket back, you look inside of there, there's still white, there's still corrosion.
It's still not gonna be able to conduct very well.
Electricity really likes to run on the surface of copper.
So if you have fine braided stuff, it works a lot better and you get more surface area.
You can handle higher amps.
So you can see the white is all the way back here on the wire and then it's clean copper.
So we want to start nice clean copper, because this stuff is like ants.
You know what you have a little foothold once you get the little queen laying eggs or something it's just tough to get rid of it.
The same thing here when you look in here, you can see that there's some more white corrosion, I'm gonna, do the same thing: lob that off this one's black, this wire- actually isn't that great.
But we have a lot of length so I'm going to take this jacket off I cut that off I'll be sweeping the floor later.
I can go back pretty far on this one, so I'm gonna take maybe another couple of inches off and see if I can get past that black nasty stuff starting to see some cleaner, nicer, copper! Well, this wire does, is it feeds a lot of your accessories? It goes into this relay box, so this goes for the pump motor, the ABS, the seven and a half hit.
It says motor check and I also pump motor relays, a bunch of ABS stuff, and the other thing that they were complaining about is that the brakes were pulsing and doing weird things, so it could be that they're getting some funky signals or some funky stuff from this.
Look at that.
That's what you want to work with.
That's what this thing had to work with when it was new and that's where we want to be so.
You got one more wire to do and that wire is the one that goes straight down to the starter.
Then we look on the back side.
We can see.
We've got some of that same bulge effect going on there and we have a bunch of white corrosion in there.
So, let's I can see the stops here and then tapers.
We got a lot of room to work with so I'm gonna just go ahead and cut it back here, a little bit.
I'm gonna get rid of that.
So much for a quick tip, that's turning into a repair video! Isn't it that's all right! This is really good information.
I cannot tell you how many people could have rescued themselves that I've garland taupe or gone and done this service with this little tool box, then save them time.
You know I'm trying to provide a service trying to help people out.
You know I've got bills to pay.
You know a roof to keep over and males defeating the whole bit the whole cliche, but uh.
So here we go so you got all this nice.
Clean, copper is enough fat sucker and then these are about.
You know, together about the same as that.
So what I'm going to do? I'm going to take those little eyelets that you saw earlier with solderless connectors and put the little one in first wrap these up and I'm gonna get the copper get cut off at the throat one.
You can see that there's a little division there.
These small I'm gonna, set the copper in there first and then crush the other one on the housing on the wire jacket.
This really causes that to hang on there properly now you'll see yeah I've got some vice grips nicking around here.
These are awesome for crimping things down just seem to get leverage.
You know by this little cam action go ahead and crush this onto the coppers like that.
Go back over the top of it just kind of curl it down factory style.
Tighten this up a little bit go around to all right.
How do you like me still want to come in out? That does not want to go anywhere.
That is tight.
All right now get these out of there.
So I'll run over it with some electrical tape before it's all said and done, we're gonna go back over and hold on to the jacket of the wires well, just kind of like a plan-b defense against this thing.
Coming apart, just great, if we take our electrical tape, we'll wrap that up because, like I say when I remember, I was doing this thing and I saying that's why we disconnect the negative you want to protect this in such a way that things aren't accidentally or, incidentally, making contact with this and going to ground.
That's tools, jumper cables like any of that kind of stuff.
You don't want it in the accidental contact.
Let me tape it up.
Is that all right, so we got the heavy gauge one.
That's going to the starter.
Let's see if I can just cut right to the vice grips on this one I got a cracked, so my hands are so stinkin dry.
This winter is killer.
That's such a long day today - it's just weird, my skin, just really dried up I want to put a bandaid on my skin was so dry that the oils weren't present and they just stuck like gangbusters all right so I got that together to where they're overlapping put a crush to it.
Sideways, there's just no air in there whatsoever.
It is just tight.
Go back over it one more time.
This way, vice grips, I, don't know they're.
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They're so hitting hold up hold open a hood with them.
You can crimp battery terminals just handy as convenient all right.
That is solid.
That is not going anywhere, don't bad ups.
It's got kind of a chief barrier to it all right.
Some unscrew this one just a little bit open that up the positive terminal is a big one.
These are not the same side, this one's a little bit smaller, so these are ambidextrous a little positive or negative right or left so get my hammer.
Pliers make them up into a hammer kind of stretch that down on there the rest of the way you got to be gentle with the leather, these things and they snap off, not super high quality, but, as I said, the owners not picky on this one they're looking for results in terms of performance, not in aesthetics or anything under the hood I could show you the bird poop on the outside of the hood and then you'd be convinced.
Okay, this plate! That's here, you can either get rid of it.
Flip it upside down.
Leave it where it is.
It doesn't really matter it's just not that critical.
If you put it upside down, then the little things you know fill in the channel underneath and that's what we're gonna do so I'm going to put this one.
A minute put a Zee bend in it a bolt in it and send it down like that.
Do the same thing with this I'm just gonna, you know: what's upside-down, I, don't care I, think it looks great.
It's kind of sexy like that.
Ah, that's what we're gonna do? Okay, the lemon millimeters all set up ready to go 7/16 whatever you wanna call up, or just like that right there.
You can take the copper and just put it directly into these things, but I find that this has a better chance of resistance erosion.
It also put felt washers and paste and goo- or you know, red jump all over it and that'll protect it as well.
Now, remember that thing that we cut off earlier that half of you were like no corrosion thing, I mean it's gonna reintroduce all kinds of crud and yuck.
We don't need that.
Nobody got time for that.
So you put a negative terminal back on here.
We're gonna tighten that down with our end Ridge.
That is evading me there.
It is, and of course, that's rusted solid, so ultimately, just gonna whack it eesh McAtee job.
On it and get it to disk, these are also not straight up and down they're a little bit like this.
So the more you force it down the more that it cinches on and tightens up so I push that on.
It is solid.
It is not going anywhere, it's kind of a fun little thing to cheat there so because I took away the other cover of protection from moisture and humidity, and everything I'll have this.
Now, let's tell this is negative.
Cuz, you see it locally goes to ground just right there.
There should be another ground that goes to the motor or something from there, whoever replaced it with a battery cable neglected to do so.
So that might be another issue.
That's causing the problem.
With this thing, not getting enough.
Amperage amperage is like the flow like how many gallons per minute and water voltages pressure so anyway, isn't that great.
That is our quick tip.
That wound up not being quite so quick.
You didn't want to see into my nose.
I know I'll spare you, but you can just be a rescue hero.
I mean in terms of fixing cars.
Getting people home that are stranded this thing just about got towed.
It was that close.
If I come out there with the trailer to tow it, you know, might as well just tow it back because I mean the gas is gonna, be burned, one way or the other.
It's matter unloading it up.
So thanks for watching my videos that do a new video every Sunday morning, as well as I, often do a video on Wednesday just because I can so.
This will probably be one of those Wednesday videos.
You usually do a big fancy one on that Sunday morning, something long and that you can just put on let it play while you're working on something you know get a half hour, 45 minute video and then I do a quick one sometime doing a week, sometimes two! So thanks for watching click subscribe.
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