[AT] OT: Check the grounds

[David Bruce]

Gives credence to my slavish devotion to farmer's words - even if the 
problem is a flat tire I often think "check the grounds".

David
NW NC

On 7/9/2012 12:42 AM, Roy Morgan wrote:
>
> On Jul 6, 2012, at 8:21 AM, Cecil R Bearden wrote:
>
>> Like Farmer Used to say "Check the grounds".
>
> I was asking at the Volvo dealer parts counter about clutch difficulty
> when the maintenance super overheard me.  (This was a '69 Volvo.)  I'd
> had to re-adjust the clutch three times and was out of travel in the
> adjutment: it was a cable operated clutch.  The maintenance guy said
> "It's your battery strap."  My baffled look brought further explanation:
>
> When the frame to engine strap is corroded, the starter current goes
> through the clutch cable, heating it up and taking the temper out of
> the wire.  Then it stretches.  Sure enough, cleaning the strap, and a
> new cable  from the battery negative directly to the block instead of
> to the frame, and a new clutch cable, and the problem was solved.
>
> The parts guy had started telling me what clutch parts I needed and
> the prices.. ugh.
>
> Roy
>
> Roy Morgan
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