Posted by oj on October 18, 2008 at 15:27:34 from (205.200.78.196):
hey all, question for you... The battery terminals on my truck are very badly corroded, the battery posts themselves are ok, but the positive clamps have been covered in white/blue ish build up, truck is a Dodge diesel with two batteries in parallel (12 volt). Truck starts ok, but when the glow plugs/heater cycles the volt gauge drops like a stone to about 10 volts, both batteries test ok and were both new one year ago. We did replace the battery cable between the positive terminals this year as the corrosion was so bad it ate thought the cable. The original battery clamps are lead, the replaced ones are brass/copper? and are badly eaten into already after about 4 months... The alternator doesn"t appear to over charge the batteries (at least not according to my tester). Any ideas to keep the corrosion at bay? Today i cleaned everything with a wire brush and scrapper the terminals/connections and then used vasaline on everything before i put it all back together. Any advise would be great... oj in mb.
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