Re: (ET) battery drainage question

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Banks, Michael J. Wrote
>When I went to hook up a trailer, I notice a huge pile of dried battery
>acid on the trailer hitch extender (little metal bar to move the trailer
>hitch out from under the tractor).
>
>I checked the batteries and 3 cells in 3 different batteries were a
>little low, the plates were just beginning to clear the water.   I added
>a little more water.    I know I put a little too much water in a few
>cells the last time I filled it.
>
>Is this leakage common? 

It's not unusual at least.

>  Anything I can do about it?    

Don't overfill the cells. I don't think there is a lot more you can do
really.

Robert




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