Biggest fear

[Kenny Pollock 10+ year member]

You can ask Tom... one of my biggest fears about working on my car is electric... I'm seriously afraid of jumping my car, disconnecting my battery to mess with anything...

I have to switch my Yellowtop out of the trunk with my new Kinetik 2400 for a show tomorrow, and I'm unsure what to do. I have to disconnect the battery terminals off of the Yellowtop, but then I'm scared to put them back on the battery and in what order because of sparks/getting shocked... especially since the battery under my hood will still be connected...

nG, feel free to come here and post "n00b" ... I know, I know...

Kenny

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[CRXican 10+ year member]

you always want to remove the ground first and put it back on last

pretty easy, however I would disconnect your main battery first

 

[Kenny Pollock 10+ year member]

Out with the old:

In with the new:

And my 1/0 crimps were too small for the battery posts... so I bought these weird copper things at Home Depot for temporary use:

thanks

 

[johnecon2001 5,000+ posts]

Since when are you a girl?

I'd bone you.

 

[mtdewelf 10+ year member]

repeatedly

 

[937DYTBOI 5,000+ posts]

keep that knife away from that BTL homie

 

[danteBirosel 5,000+ posts]

Since when are you a girl?
I'd bone you.

hahaahahahahaah!!!

 

[wilzyx 5,000+ posts]

nudes?

anyways, you shouldnt be afraid, just take the ground off of the battery and your good. it wont shock you if your hand accidentally touches it a bit while taking it off either.

 

[creyc 10+ year member]

12v is safe to touch, so don't be afraid of getting shocked.

The thing to be careful about is letting the batt or (+) terminal come in direct contact with a ground, be it metal of the car chassis, the other terminal on the battery or and amp chassis. There is a lot of current in a battery, and if you were to short the terminals somehow you could cause some serious damage. So just..don't let the positive ever touch anything but the + terminal of the amp. and you'll be fine.

 

[saywhat? 5,000+ posts]

12v is safe to touch, so don't be afraid of getting shocked.
The thing to be careful about is letting the batt or (+) terminal come in direct contact with a ground, be it metal of the car chassis, the other terminal on the battery or and amp chassis. There is a lot of current in a battery, and if you were to short the terminals somehow you could cause some serious damage. So just..don't let the positive ever touch anything but the + terminal of the amp. and you'll be fine.

lol saying anything with electric current is safe is like saying punching a bear in the face wont get you killed.

ANYTHING with electrical current can ****ing HURT. let along take out all of your electrical system.

 

[undits 10+ year member]

Since when are you a girl?
I'd bone you.

X2

 

[undits 10+ year member]

Since when are you a girl?
I'd bone you.

X2

decent tits FTW?//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/yumyum.gif.0556df42231b304b9c995aefd13928a8.gif

 

[wilzyx 5,000+ posts]

come on kenny, youve been here long enough to know not to post any pics of people that are close to you, especially women

 

[Kenny Pollock 10+ year member]

come on kenny, youve been here long enough to know not to post any pics of people that are close to you, especially women

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif I thought it was a cool pic, and I don't care what anyone thinks of my girl... we've been together for 2 years, I'm keepin' her, lol.
Thanks for the information guys, everything went smoothly except putting all the power wires on positive after ground was in, big ass spark... but it was for a second. Car runs good so I'd say it was a success!

I think there was a thread here on it, but how do you guys crimp your ring terminals on? Tom and I used a table vise AND he soldered it... and I pulled them off today with no effort. And where did you guys your 1/0 ring terminals? Mine from Knu are too **** small for the screws I use.

 

[937DYTBOI 5,000+ posts]

most people use a hammer and beat on it to crimp tighter, but i used a a big crimper at a semi truck dealer, the dealer was nice enough to let me use it