Car is not any better. 1 step forward/backward. Advice.

[Pete in NH]

Guy,

If you’re talking about those clamp on replacement battery terminals that clamp the bare cable under a metal strap held on by two bolts, they often turn into a broken, corroded mess. They are at best only a quick fix that doesn’t hold up.

One good way to make them much more reliable is to use a ring terminal on the cable end and bolt the ring terminal under one of the cable strap bolts. A good automotive electrical shop should be able to do this for you and I would do this to both battery cables if they have replacement terminals on them. For best connection the ring terminal should be crimped onto the cable with a high pressure crimping tool or both crimped and soldered. You can find the ring terminals in those hardware store tray assortments for something like #6 wire and a 5/16 or 3/8 bolt. If you have access to a really big soldering iron you can put them on at home, maybe Butch could give you a hand, it’s a quick job if you have the tools.

[MyDodgeDip]

One better than that is to do the ring terminal like Pete says and get a Marine terminal. They have a post with a wing nut that you can secure the ring terminal on.

If the injector spray is sloppy and the throttle body has fuel pooling up, it could be an injector problem, either O rings or a stuck injector. If you can grab a junkyard injector and a new set of O rings cheap it may be worth swapping another in and seeing what it does. Also, has the hall effect pickup in the distributor even been changed?

[Butch]

Car runs pretty good now, long story and I'm going to bed now.

[89ARIES]

Yes, interesting saga.