<div dir="ltr">DC power for your car requires a circuit of both positive and negative.<div>What John said.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:44 AM, MICHAEL ROWE via Spridgets <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" target="_blank">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Instructions for working on the gauges of my Toyota say remove the negative battery terminal. This makes no sense to me. It leaves all the hot wires live, so if your tool grounds one of them, it will spark. Removing the positive terminal eliminates this possibility.<div><br></div><div>Some years ago, I put in a kill switch on the ground terminal, and the car would continue to run when the ground was open. It only prevented starting. In fact, this is one of the electrical tests mentioned by John Twist. </div><div><br></div><div>All of my cars have a disconnect knob on the positive terminal. Do I have this backward?</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Michael Rowe</div>
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