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Originally Posted by Benzadmiral
While waiting for the oil to drain into the Topsider, I went back and checked for the battery. I had to take everything out of the trunk, but then the mat clipped easily onto the top edge of the rubber seal for the trunk, out of the way. The quarter worked fine to open the cells.
But it took me nearly a half gallon of distilled water to fill the cells!
When I say "fill," I mean just up to the point where I could actually see water not far below the lip. When I first learned about cars, the rule I heard was to fill the cell to the lower edge of that little vertical slot, and I aimed for that. But the battery must have been almost bone dry!
The car starts immediately (and, amazingly, was doing that before I rehydrated the battery). Could the battery be on its way to dusty death? Should I have it checked?
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As far as fill level, I did as you did but later noticed that on the side of the battery there is a fill line which was lower than what I was filling to.
As far as life, there was a recall on the batteries on the 98's. Not sure about the 97. You could get in on that if it was never done. Part of the reason for the recall was that the manual did not mention to ever check the level in the battery.
Mike
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1998 C230 330,000 miles (currently dead of second failed EIS, yours will fail too, turning you into the dealer's personal human cash machine)
1988 F150 144,000 miles (leaks all the colors of the rainbow)
Previous stars: 1981 Brava 210,000 miles, 1978 128 150,000 miles, 1977 B200 Van 175,000 miles, 1972 Vega (great, if rusty, car), 1972 Celica, 1986.5 Supra
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