If your car is neg ground then the neg cable to it should be to a ground on
your car other than the battery. That should be the last one hooked up and
first one disconected. Something about sparks and batteries going boom.
Crash
-----Original Message-----
From Charles D. Sorkin <cdsorkin at ix.netcom.com>
To: Spridget List <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, January 28, 2000 10:45
Subject: Jump starting w/ just a battery
>Dear List folks:
>
>A substantial snowdrift has pinned the Midget into the garage, thus
>preventing me from pulling another car in front of it in order to jump
start
>it. (I'm just running it for 15 minutes or so to give it some exercise.)
I
>have a spare (non MG size) battery sitting in my basement, fully charged.
>If I use that battery to jump the Midget, do I simply attach positive to
>positive and negative to negative? Or do I need to ground the one of the
>negatives against something else?
>
>Regards,
>
>Charles
>'74 Midget
>'68 Sprite
>cdsorkin@ix.netcom.com
>Bloomfield, NJ
>
>
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