Battery Ground Cable Melted. This HEI wire has an inline fuse. How do you replace a positive battery cable.
Towed home put new cables on wants to turn over but ground cable heats up starts to melt and smoke what could be causing this. Positive battery cable has no nicks grounding to chassis anywhere. Part 1 of 1.
I jump out throw the hood open and see that the little wire coming from the negative side of the battery got so hot it melted all the rubber insulation off.
An example of a dead short would be if you were to somehow crush the positive cable pinching it between two parts when reinstalling them it would cause a direct short to ground which is where the negative battery cable goes. Why does my positive battery cable get hot. Clean all the engine and chassis grounds under the hood. That wire is keeping some piece of metal from rising in voltage despite a high voltage wire having come in contact with it somewhere.
