RE: '63 Spider no start -now starts (but I feel like an idiot)

["Brian Shorey" <bshorey@domain.elided>]

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> to the negative. Again, I do the cable first and go to the battery
terminal. But
> wait--something doesn't "feel" right as I rub the sandpaper on the post. I
look
> really closely in the limited light and to my horror I realize there is a
> plastic cap over the negative terminal!!!!!! After laughing, crying and
awarding
> myself the 2002 Darwin Award, I take the black plastic cap off, replace
the
> cables and guess what? The car cranks over fine and starts up. It's funny
how I
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ROTFL!  I've got to admit, this is a first for me, I *never* would have
expected something like it.  Thanks for sharing, it takes a real man to
admit to something like that.  I guess Fred will have to update his
troubleshooting guidelines now.

bs
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