Re: Restoration Battery
I just ruined my second Resto Battery in my 66 in 3 months. Apparently my alternator wasn't putting out any juice at all, even though my guage was reading straight up.
I went out to start the car and she was dead as a doornail, only reading about 4 volts. I put my charger on it, and she got back up to 100% charge, and I drove the car from York to Hershey. (At this point I did not think the alternator was on the fritz). When I got to Hershey, I put her back on the charger and she had dropped to 85%, so I knew I had an issue. The charger took it up to 100% pretty quickly and I left it on sustain mode overnight.
Well the next morning, even though the battery was reading 100% on the charger, it did nothing. I hooked the charger back up and got a 3% reading. I had to swap for a modern backup.
Now my charger tries but goes to crazy 8's on the display saying there is an issue and my tender doesn't even register a good connection.
What could cause the battery to die that quickly, even with a dead alternator? Is there any hope to bring it back to life? Does anybody have the instructions as to how to pull out the guts and replace with an optima? (I'd hate to blow ANOTHER $240).
I just ruined my second Resto Battery in my 66 in 3 months. Apparently my alternator wasn't putting out any juice at all, even though my guage was reading straight up.
I went out to start the car and she was dead as a doornail, only reading about 4 volts. I put my charger on it, and she got back up to 100% charge, and I drove the car from York to Hershey. (At this point I did not think the alternator was on the fritz). When I got to Hershey, I put her back on the charger and she had dropped to 85%, so I knew I had an issue. The charger took it up to 100% pretty quickly and I left it on sustain mode overnight.
Well the next morning, even though the battery was reading 100% on the charger, it did nothing. I hooked the charger back up and got a 3% reading. I had to swap for a modern backup.
Now my charger tries but goes to crazy 8's on the display saying there is an issue and my tender doesn't even register a good connection.
What could cause the battery to die that quickly, even with a dead alternator? Is there any hope to bring it back to life? Does anybody have the instructions as to how to pull out the guts and replace with an optima? (I'd hate to blow ANOTHER $240).
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