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New Battery and smoking wires
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Bobby73
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 New Battery and smoking wires Okay...newbie here! I installed a new Optima battery and these two connectors started  g. Is it the wrong size battery and where do I start trouble shooting the electric. Gracias! Bobby  Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Gunnibronco
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Re: New Battery and smoking wires Moved to '4x4 tech'.
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akaFrankCastle
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Re: New Battery and smoking wires You appear to have a wire missing from your starter solenoid. And it looks new. Did you recently replace that as well?
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Bobby73
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Re: New Battery and smoking wires New solenoid and took wire off to look at connectors, but was connect before.
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Bobby73
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Re: New Battery and smoking wires Ran after replacing solenoid and then battery died over winter.
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Bobby73
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Re: New Battery and smoking wires  Looks like it was spliced and then silicon caulked?? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Digger
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Re: New Battery and smoking wires
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Bobby73
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Re: New Battery and smoking wires Okay...fixing loose connections and found fusible link was cooked  Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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Bobby73
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Re: New Battery and smoking wires Okay...after a bunch of soldered connections and a new solenoid I finally have fixed the problem. Thanks guys.
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Kinder
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Re: New Battery and smoking wires Thumbs up!
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