What a day!!!

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What a day!!!

April 27, 2009, 07:45:15 PM

Well I guess it was my day for disasters. Got a letter from the town I live in telling me I needed to get my dog licensed or the dog warden would visit. I already had a appointment for her check up so no biggie, except that I passed up some work to make the appointment. Then I drove my wifes Jeep into town to pick up some work that was getting faxed to me, it never arrived. Got in the Jeep to come home and the battery exploded in the Jeep. I believe any of the hearing I still had is now officially gone. Cleaned that mess up and took the battery out of one of my other cars and got it home. Well I just needed to vent I guess, hope that is the end of my Monday:punchballs:

What a day!!!

Reply #1 – April 27, 2009, 07:46:26 PM

Sit back and have a few cold ones man, sounds like nothing went your way today

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Reply #2 – April 27, 2009, 07:53:25 PM

The battery EXPLODED???? That must have been one hell of a mess....any sheetmetal damaged on the vehicle? That stuff has to eat through anything like crazy....:eek:

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Reply #3 – April 27, 2009, 08:27:55 PM

Battery acid is not that bad. It will eat paint. It also eats rust. im not sure if it eats it, or makes it worse. It also tastes like garbage. Just incase you ever have your battery tray randomly break and rub on your belt. One new $60 battery down the drain.

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Reply #4 – April 27, 2009, 09:21:40 PM

I've only ever witnessed one battery explosion, in an '80 T-Bird with a bad regulator. The hood was open, but thankfully we weren't near it. The noise was deafening, and we never did find the vent caps.

Battery acid will corrode sheet metal over time, but if it's only there for a short period it will actually clean it. When I worked at a rad shop straight out of trade school we used sulphuric acid to clean brass radiator tanks and steel gas tanks before repairing them. It is EXTREMELY important to get it all cleaned up, though, because if left in a nook or cranny it'll cause severe corrosion.

Funny battery acid story. In know it's a derail, but this must be told: My sister had a Nissan Multi hatchback, and her BF replaced the battery in it. He put the old battery in the back, and it fell over and leaked all of its acid into the carpet. FWIW, battery acid does absolutely no harm to Nissan Multi carpeting. One day I was working on the car and the hatch was open. My father, who is extremely lazy and always looking for a place to sit down, sat down in the rear hatch area. His pants soaked up the battery acid, but he didn't realize it (He'd been drinking).

The next morning he and my mother went out and ran some errands - grocery store, bank, liquor store, etc. My father, who was still feeling last night's buzz and was already working on a new one, was wearing the same pants. When they got home he sat on the couch (battery acid apparently will not harm couch cushions either, BTW), and there he stayed for a few minutes. He then got up and walked down the hallway and we all burst out laughing. The entire backside of his pants and underwear were missing! The acid had completely eaten the cotton away, and his big pink arse was hanging out for all to see. He hadn't realized it and had just inadvertently mooned half the town!

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Reply #5 – April 27, 2009, 10:22:27 PM

I agree this was one of the loudest things i've heard in quite awhile. I had seen exploded ones before when working for MB but the only other time I saw one blow , we were looking to buy a 61 lincoln, hood was open and the battery sits right near the exhaust manifold, anyhow it had a cracked manifold and one thing led to another and when it was over all that was left was the plates from inside and the posts. I have no idea where the battery case went, it never came down

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Reply #6 – April 27, 2009, 10:51:22 PM

This is what it looked like under the battery tray in the t-bird when i got it:

Dont know what happened, But the header panel and grille was busted when i got it, so i assume it was in an accident (Never dospoogeented...) and jumbled the battery around.