[rant]
So, last night for no appearent reason my Buick's battery just GIVES OUT on me. No cranking power. Try to jump with the cables on the battery...no good. Try to let the battery charge on a charger...no good. So, at 11:00 at night I simply can't start my car.

First Trip: Wal Mart to buy a new 65 dollar battery and my friends house to pick up some sockets and a ratchet.

We go back to the car and get to work on the battery. Now, this SHOULD be a simple job, and indeed it is...until...

..The goddamn nut form INSIDE the side-post battery which you screw the bolt into actually rips right out of the battery! So, now I have the positive connector screwed.

Second Trip: Back to my friends to get a cresent wrench, break-free and vice grips.

...The nut is on so tightly that all we do is turn the 8mm end into nothing even when we use the vice grips to hold it and douse it in break-free. Theres a big sturdy plastic boot that you really don't wanna wreck getting in the way so we can't blowtorch it off, and we have no air tools nearby.

Third Trip: Discount to get a hacksaw, saw blades, and a new bolt for the positive terminal.

...Back to the car, after about an hour of tedious sawing, we saw right through the nut and bolt...Unfortuantly, the nut sat flush with one of the spade connectors supplying the car with power and was also partially inside of the boot. So, we have about 1/2 cm of the metal left from the nut...I knew this before hand, figured I could just twist it off afterwards.

Yeah. Right. Its stuck on still flush so I can't get vice grips behidn it. I can't budge even that little peice off the threads, and well...its 2AM...so, thats how my car sits right now after about 4 hours in labor and 100 dollars in expenses. I'm about to tow it over to another house with airtools and just take a grinder to it...

...Any other suggestions? [/rant]

 

Whats really going to suck for you if its not your battery but your altenator. Take a flat head screwdriver and a hammer and knock the fuck out of the screw to break it loose.

 

Put new terminals on?

 

cut the battery cable and put a new end on it

 

+1

 

Its not that simple with this mother fucker. Theres 4 main wires going into this 2-part boot. Each wire is crimped onto a big spade connector. The boot covers everything in the true spirit of modern GM. Its not really possible to cut things unless I want to ghetto rig it back together, and I really don't want to work on this thing like I work on my Mustang.

 

I have yet to try that. I acn't get it between the nut remainder and the spade connector to use any wedging action...but maybe enough bashing woudl free something up.

 

+1

 

I would go with cut it off/terminal replacement, as well as seeking a solution to the other wires, but not being able to see what you are facing, I cannot offer that solution right now. Any pics?

And BTW, if it wasn't such a hassle for you, your post could have been seen as humorous......and I DO understand.-Bob

 

Eh, I just went out there and attacked it with a drill. After a snapped bit and 2 other worn down bits, I drilled a hole through enough of the nut and bolt that it bracked in half and it came off. Only problem now is the stereo decided to go into LOC mode on me because battery power was lost. I love GM.