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Old Oct 28, 2008 | 09:42 AM
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any body know how many cranking amps a 98 3.8 needs. My battery is on it's way out and I want to get a good one but not one that has way more cold cranking amps than I need
 
Old Oct 28, 2008 | 09:47 AM
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stock is 540
 
Old Oct 28, 2008 | 09:48 AM
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Thanks randy

is that 540 cranking or cold cranking

cause the cold weather is whats ending mine
 
Old Oct 28, 2008 | 08:05 PM
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Ah HA! I knew it was the CCA of the battery.... now if I had only known that on my physics test this morning
 
Old Oct 29, 2008 | 04:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Lazerred6
Thanks randy

is that 540 cranking or cold cranking

cause the cold weather is whats ending mine
yes, it's a group # 58 wth 540 CCA and a 92min reserve
 
Old Oct 29, 2008 | 05:34 AM
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Last night on my way home from work I pick up a new battery with 590 cca just to be safe and so they throw in a 3 year free replacment 8 year warrenty.

Long story short problem solved


Problem is I changed it at night because I figured I wouldn't have time this morning cause I wanted to sleep in now changing a battery should take......5 min maybe 10 I changed mine in the dark and it took me like 1/2 an hour cause I dropped the fricken socket I needed and it took me forever to find the damn thing.
 
Old Oct 29, 2008 | 06:05 AM
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Originally Posted by ppaelkos
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Sure will
Usually the spammers revive dead threads...
 
Old Oct 29, 2008 | 07:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Ghostalker
Sure will
Usually the spammers revive dead threads...
Did I miss somthing
 
Old Oct 29, 2008 | 07:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Lazerred6
Did I miss somthing
yeah, some ***-Spammer selling Viagra on here, so I kicked him to the Curb
 
Old Oct 29, 2008 | 07:47 AM
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I'm surprised usually they go after really onl threads
 
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