<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">I don’t know if this is relevant but FWIW, I had this happen 30 years ago with a Mercedes 230sl I owned. I turned the key to start the car and BOOM! (I now know what a mafioso’s last thoughts are: “What the f” was probably all I would have had time to think.) I may be wrong about this, but I attributed the problem to repeatedly discharging and charging the battery weakening the case, as the car tended to sit a lot and not get driven. I replaced the battery and never had another problem.<div><br></div><div>Jim<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Oct 6, 2023, at 2:12 PM, john <jniolon@att.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>
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<div><font face="Segoe UI">here's a new one for me... Hadn't heard my generator exercise lately so tried to start it manually...click..ckick</font></div>
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<div><font face="Segoe UI">pulled the cover off and here's what I found... top and side blown off and of course fluid drained out</font></div>
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<div><font face="Segoe UI">looks like it exploded... anyone seen this before?? can't trouble shoot till I get another battery... what...other than a direct</font></div>
<div><font face="Segoe UI">short would cause this?? what/where/how would you troubleshoot ??</font></div>
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