Greetings and Happy Easter to all. Its been a while since I posted here, but I have been lurking.
Decided to fire up the B today... actually I tried last week. Wouldn't start. Figured it was a dead battery, but I couldn't jump start it either.
Since battery appeared to be old, I decided to replace it on principle. Car still wouldn't start. During the process of cleaning the battery connections, the postive lug fell off the wire. That was the problem. I'm still amazed it didn't fall off when I removed it from the battery...
However, while I was cleaning the connections, I decided the original battery wire ends were corroded beyond repair, so I installed new #2 cable. While hooking up the starter end I was doing a little clean up underneath. I noticed that the insulation on the brown wires going to the starter were worn through. And, another group of wires still wrapped in blue tape were worn through. Yep... blue tape AND insulation was worn right off. The only thing saving me was the dirt and grease on the wires. Lucky find! I don't need or want to burn the car to the ground.
I was grumbling when the new battery didn't fix the job, but after finding this potential nightmare I was happy as a P.I.S.
Take care!