Re: [Chrysler300] Clocks and battery

["Fern Rivard" <crc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    I agree with disconnecting the battery on a stored or parked
vehicle. I never fully tighten the negative post cable on my 65 300L ht
and so it's just a matter of a slight twist to disconnect it every time
I park or store the vehicle. I always leave the fully charged battery in
the vehicle for the winter and found that it always held charge right
thru the winter. Also, this is very cheap insurance to prevent an
electrical fire in those old cars. My theory "no spark....no fire".
    Cheers from Fern


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johnl" <john@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pennsy300@xxxxxxx>; <chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "John Hertog"
<crossram@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 7:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Chrysler300] Clocks


> John and all,
>
> Putting the clock issue aside I NEVER leave a battery connected on my
> collector cars even overnight.  I keep six cars in my garage, four of
them
> being collector cars.  They usually have pretty close to full fuel
tanks and
> I don't want to experience a fire due to some short or freak accident.
Can
> you imagine what 6 X 20 gallons of fuel could do in a confined area.
Our
> remaining cars are kept at my business under the same disconnect
format.  I
> don't want to get a call or arrive to find the building burned down to
the
> ground.
>
> Possibly you think this might be an over reaction, but I'd rather take
the
> few seconds to disconnect that deal with the potential.
>
> See lots of you next week in Maine,
>
> John Lazenby
> Southern California, just minutes from Disneyland
> 1955 Chrysler New Yorker Deluxe Town & Country
> 1955 Imperial Newport
> 1955 Chrysler C300
> 1956 Chrysler 300B
> 1957 Chrysler 300C Coupe
> 1960 Chrysler 300F Coupe
> 1963  Volkswagen Beetle
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Hertog" <crossram@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pennsy300@xxxxxxx>; <chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 6:52 PM
> Subject: [Chrysler300] Clocks
>
>
> > Hi Terry,
> >
> > I beg to differ.  I always leave the battery connected in my 300G
rag over
> > the winter; probably because I am too lazy to disconnect it. After
3,4, or
> 5
> > months of sitting, the battery is still good, the clock is still
going
> > "Tchunk - tic - tic - tic " , and, since the "G" has an electric
fuel
> pump,
> > it starts right up even after a long period of time . I also believe
> (maybe
> > wrongly) that keeping the clock running may help to preserve its
> mechanical
> > integrity. It can't draw much power, the clock...
> >
> > Of course, one could easily hook up a trickle charger to the car,
even
> with
> > battery disconnected, and that would be enough to keep the clock
operating
> > thru the long (ugh) winter months.
> >
> > Buy you a beer in Maine...
> >
> > John Hertog
> > Sag Harbor NY
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <pennsy300@xxxxxxx>
> > To: <chrysler300@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 8:05 PM
> > Subject: [Chrysler300] Clocks
> >
> >
> > Interesting reading on the clocks in our Brutes.  One comment:   for
those
> > of
> > us who use our cars primarily for intertainment, and may have them
set
> for
> > two or three weeks at a time without starting, the constant winding
of
> the
> > clock can run down the battery.  I think that the quartz clock
mechanisms
> > use so
> > little current that that should never be a problem.   Terry
McTaggart,
> some
> > seven days before heading off to  Maine.
> >
> >
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