Suggest you have your charging system checked - sounds as if it may be
overcharging.
Bill
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> From: Nory <Nory@webtv.net>
> To: mgs@autox.team.net; spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: strange one
> Date: Monday, July 20, 1998 8:24 AM
>
> Here's a strange one. What would cause a car to, after a short trip,
> first, not start..... then, coming back to it later, it starts, but
> blows the caps off the battery? This has happened twice in the last
> four or five months. The battery is a year old, and looks like it got
> cracked the second time this happened. Could this be a voltage
> regulator problem? It's running fine now, with another battery (don't
> want to use the cracked one), but I'm sure it's just a matter of time
> before it happens again.
>
> -NORY
>
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