Close call with the battery!

[JayJay]

Originally Posted by Ayers1

I had an incident with the battery in my 31 this past week. I drove it to the A club meeting hit a couple of bumps along the way. When I got in the parking lot I went over a speed bump and the car died. No power to anything. Pulled the battery cover off and found the ground strap had melted loose from the clamp. I got it towed home, pulled the floorboards and found the battery had come loose from the corner hold downs that was on it and gotten against the brake rod. There it started welding itself to the rod! Luckily the ground strap gave out before any real damage was done. It now has the full square hold down to keep it in place!

Just a warning for anyone that has the corner hold downs. Keep an eye on them!

Same thing happened to one of our club members recently, same issue with the hold downs. I never thought of a battery cable being a fusible link before.