Originally Posted By: eljefino
Originally Posted By: 5AcresAndAFool
If you do try to salvage the car and replace the damaged components, There is no way I would hook a battery straight up to the cars cables. I would use fused lengths of wire with the battery away from the car a bit. Something like a 15 or 20 amp fuse inline. You definitely don't want to hook the battery up to a dead short. be very careful if you try to fix it.
THat won't work, it won't crank. Just pop the fuse.
I was thinking along the lines of using this method just to verify that there is not a dead short somewhere, not actually trying to run it like that, basically trying to avoid hooking the battery up to a dead short.
I have had to use this method years ago when I didn't have a multi meter or the money to buy one and the battery cable going to the starter shorted out on my old truck.
Originally Posted By: 5AcresAndAFool
If you do try to salvage the car and replace the damaged components, There is no way I would hook a battery straight up to the cars cables. I would use fused lengths of wire with the battery away from the car a bit. Something like a 15 or 20 amp fuse inline. You definitely don't want to hook the battery up to a dead short. be very careful if you try to fix it.
THat won't work, it won't crank. Just pop the fuse.
I was thinking along the lines of using this method just to verify that there is not a dead short somewhere, not actually trying to run it like that, basically trying to avoid hooking the battery up to a dead short.
I have had to use this method years ago when I didn't have a multi meter or the money to buy one and the battery cable going to the starter shorted out on my old truck.