Dead 6V battery, 12V jump start with pos and neg wrong

[stewwolfe]

Don't feel too badly about no gas, because most all of us have done it at one time or another. I just did it with my roadster the other day. I've been driving the cabriolet most of the winter and decided to fire off the roadster before I had a dead battery. Well it didn't start. I decided it was too cold to troubleshoot it right then and there so I left it for the night. The next morning I happened to notice a big 0 on the gas gage. Adding some fuel helped a lot, it started right up. Another favorite trick is to start the car and pull out only to have it die because I forgot to turn on the gas.

[DirtyDuck]

The gas gauge showed 1/2, but the tank was dry empty...

[CarlG]

Key not turned on, gas not turned on, no gas. We've all done it at one time or another! Probably a lot more than any of us are ready to admit!

[silversink]

just a reminder.... the starter bolts are different lengths.....if you pull the starter again and it wont turn over change the bolts around.....don't ask how I know....took tree days to figure out

[Brentwood Bob]

I like to call you efforts experience.
Drive the pickup, and enjoy it.
Bob

[Tom Wesenberg]

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Originally Posted by silversink

just a reminder.... the starter bolts are different lengths.....if you pull the starter again and it wont turn over change the bolts around.....don't ask how I know....took tree days to figure out

The three starter bolts should all be the same since they each fit the same flange and nothing else is held by any of them.

[silversink]

Originally Posted by Tom Wesenberg

The three starter bolts should all be the same since they each fit the same flange and nothing else is held by any of them.

I had one that was longer than the others that jammed the flywheel, it may have been replace
d some time in its existence