So I just picked up a 2002 EP3 with a jrsc, quite fun but it needs an lsd desperately and a 6th gear would be nice.

On the drive home - 3 hours, the Odyssey 925 battery that had been relocated to the spare tire well decided to explode. Part of it might have been my fault for disregarding the smell as something in one of the boxes I was carrying with me in the back. Lucky for me though the battery was well strapped down and contained in an aluminum battery box but that didn't stop the mess from happening.


I am now faced with the predicament of trying to figure out why this happened. The voltage gauge looked fairly normal although at idle it dropped to 12v a few times while still in the city while staying in the high 13's before that.

Any tips? The ground is under 12 inches and the power wire looks to be 4 gauge might be 2 gauge.

 

been running a bat in the hatch for years....I would check your lines and see if you have hard short anywere. I spent a lot of time making sure there were no places I could get rub through on the power lead.

 

I second this make sure you check everywhere that you have the wires running. It would have been cutt

 

It turned out to actually be a battery problem. put a new battery in and I have been having no issues. I am however monitoring the situation closely.

 

Isn't that a dry cell battery? I'm confused how this would've happened.

 

any pictures?

 

wacked yo!!!

 

 

here is mine.....look in the right hand corner.....

 

holy ****!...that must have scared the crap out of you!

 

no ****, never knew dry cell can blow up...huh

glad your alright.

 

yep, check your main hot wire, it might'of came in contact with the shell.

you're lucky you didnt fry the electrical. next time...put an inline fuse by the battery post. a fuse is cheaper and less riskier than a bomb blowing up.