[JL8Jeff]

I was getting ready to head out to play volleyball after work and the gauges jumped around with a weird noise but no crank over to the engine. So I popped the hood and started to check the battery and cables and the positive cable just popped right out of the battery! It looks like it was rusting from the inside out and caused higher resistance which melted the connecter. The positive cable looks like it took a couple of high resistance shots and started to melt the casing so I'll need to replace that as well and it doesn't look like a cheap cable. Luckily the 70 had a sidepost battery in it so I swapped it out and was up and running. I'm just glad this happened at home and not at the beach!