As you may know (via 911 forum) i had battery trouble on my sierra. I replaced and installed 2th batteries and found that the old battery on the drivers side had a pretty significant acid leak. The leak wore into the old batteries bolt for the positive terminal and I had to have it replaced. (no big deal right) So i go to the auto store and they have 2 sizes, one is cleary too small and the one i bought (specified for diesels) was too long. I come up with an idea to get some washers to kinda fill in some space on the bolt. I Install the battery and all is well.
Today I come out to a dead truck
. I knew it must have been a connection to the battery on that side. I pop the hood and keep the keys in the ignition while i messd with the positive terminal cable. In cases it was making contact, (open doors beep) etc. Other cases it was giving no love whatsoever. In Fears of over tightening I added another washer on the topside of the terminal and adjusted it to get to fire up.
Now here is my thoughts, I did find a pretty significant amount of battery acid removing the old batteries. Is Their any way that the positive terminal wire could be affeceted by the acid leak. The reason I ask is because it does seem to give contact in certain areas (ie, if i jingle around with it on the terminal it will light up the dash etc) Or since i barely hand tightened them in the first place, do you think this was more caused by driving and the bolts coming loose?