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Offline rheady

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Throttle body clean
« on: 02 March 2009, 10:28 »
Just a quick question, when you diconnect the battery do you take off the positive first or the negative?
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Offline Wayne

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Re: Throttle body clean
« Reply #1 on: 02 March 2009, 10:40 »
Quote from: rheady on 02 March 2009, 10:28
Just a quick question, when you diconnect the battery do you take off the positive first or the negative?

I always remove the positive first.
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Offline dai-cymru

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Re: Throttle body clean
« Reply #2 on: 02 March 2009, 11:09 »
Quote from: wayned on 02 March 2009, 10:40
Quote from: rheady on 02 March 2009, 10:28
Just a quick question, when you diconnect the battery do you take off the positive first or the negative?

I always remove the positive first.

negative first you dont get a spark

Removal 1) Negative 2) Positive

reconecting 1) positive 2) negative
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Re: Throttle body clean
« Reply #3 on: 02 March 2009, 11:25 »
Quote from: dai-cymru on 02 March 2009, 11:09
Quote from: wayned on 02 March 2009, 10:40
Quote from: rheady on 02 March 2009, 10:28
Just a quick question, when you diconnect the battery do you take off the positive first or the negative?

I always remove the positive first.

negative first you dont get a spark

Removal 1) Negative 2) Positive

reconecting 1) positive 2) negative

I was always told at college to leave the negative lead connected as that way it keeps the earth and could avoid damage but he was wrong it seems.
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Offline dai-cymru

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Re: Throttle body clean
« Reply #4 on: 02 March 2009, 11:43 »
Quote from: wayned on 02 March 2009, 11:25
Quote from: dai-cymru on 02 March 2009, 11:09
Quote from: wayned on 02 March 2009, 10:40
Quote from: rheady on 02 March 2009, 10:28
Just a quick question, when you diconnect the battery do you take off the positive first or the negative?

I always remove the positive first.

negative first you dont get a spark

Removal 1) Negative 2) Positive

reconecting 1) positive 2) negative

I was always told at college to leave the negative lead connected as that way it keeps the earth and could avoid damage but he was wrong it seems.


yeah if you leave earth connected you still have a circuit so when un bolting the postive clamp for example, if you touched your spanner or the postive lead on any part of the body/chassis you will get pos/neg cross and some nice sparks  :laugh: :laugh:
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Re: Throttle body clean
« Reply #5 on: 02 March 2009, 12:58 »
Quote from: dai-cymru on 02 March 2009, 11:09
Quote from: wayned on 02 March 2009, 10:40
Quote from: rheady on 02 March 2009, 10:28
Just a quick question, when you diconnect the battery do you take off the positive first or the negative?

I always remove the positive first.

negative first you dont get a spark

Removal 1) Negative 2) Positive

reconecting 1) positive 2) negative
as dai says  :wink: thats what i was taught many years ago at college  :laugh:
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Re: Throttle body clean
« Reply #6 on: 02 March 2009, 16:00 »
lol yup many moons ago matt lol :evil:
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Re: Throttle body clean
« Reply #7 on: 02 March 2009, 18:48 »
Also check to see if you have a fault code after disconnecting the battery as it will sometimes store one  :nerd:
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Re: Throttle body clean
« Reply #8 on: 02 March 2009, 18:51 »
I just pull off whichever connection I'm closest to at the time!!  I only remove one as well!  :grin:
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Offline rheady

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Re: Throttle body clean
« Reply #9 on: 03 March 2009, 21:34 »
thanks for the replies, just put my mind at rest.
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