{"id":55390,"date":"2018-05-01T08:39:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T13:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=55390"},"modified":"2024-02-11T11:25:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T19:25:24","slug":"battery-post-sparks-1986-dodge-pickup-d150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2018\/05\/battery-post-sparks-1986-dodge-pickup-d150","title":{"rendered":"Battery post sparks 1986 dodge pickup d150 royale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-55402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/1986-dodge-truck.jpg\" alt=\"1986 Dodge Pick Up\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/1986-dodge-truck.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/1986-dodge-truck-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Battery post sparks<\/h3>\n<p>There is a short somewhere as the battery post sparks with nothing on.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>It can be normal to see a small spark but not a big spark. If there is a short you may want to isolate one end of the cable and perform a continuity check.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/wiringproblems%206.html\">Continuity test<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battery post sparks There is a short somewhere as the battery post sparks with nothing on. It can be normal to see a small spark but not a big spark. If there is a short you may want to isolate one end of the cable and perform a continuity check. Continuity test<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14955,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,20],"tags":[21762,21761,468],"class_list":["post-55390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-repair-questions","category-dodge","tag-battery-post-sparks","tag-battery-sparks","tag-pick-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14955"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}