Weren't we talking about MGB's with the tight fitting batteries? I don't recall
the topic being used Volvos with missing battery clamps. Were you driving the
car
when this happened? If not, then you really can't say that the car didn't go
over
a Grand Canyon sized bump. If so, take the speed bumps a bit slower. Just one
more reason to cover those battery clamps.
Jim
REwald9535@aol.com wrote:
> I have always used a hold down on my LBC's, and needless to say have never
> had a problem. However once I bought a used Volvo. The first night I had
> the car I was doing a tune up and usual stuff to a "new car" (to me anyway).
> I noticed a strange crescent shaped piece missing from one of the stiffeners
> under the hood. It took me a minute to figure out what had caused it. It
> was located directly above the positive battery cable and of course there was
> no hold down. There was before I left the shop that evening! So I submit
> that it does not take the Grand Canyon for this type of event to occur.
> Rick Ewald
>
> In a message dated 02/06/2000 7:04:22 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> microdoc@apk.net writes:
>
> > I think it is an injustice to call a topographic event a "bump" if it is
> > capable
> > of launching a battery skyward enough for it to weld itself to the cover
> > panel in
> > the MGA/MGB. I think that a bump of that magnitude would be more aptly
> > referred
> > to as a National Monument like the Grande Canyon, or the Cliffs of Dover
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