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Originally Posted by thetruth
Clearly something is wrong. The obvious-are your batteries secure? Do they match? Are the connections clean?
Your wife's driving?
Most electric golf cart batteries and secured by bolt and nut clamping the cables together. I find it would be very hard to blantanly over tighten them, even hard to smash the lead post, but will will crack if you jump up and down on the wrenches.
As to torquing the connectors. CONFESSIONS- I've had cars, boats, and now a golf cart. Some of the items listed were OLD. I've never heard of anyone torquing the battery connectors. You can over-tighten them to the point of stripping the screw. Wrench size-a 1/4 inch socket wrench-a six inch combination wrench. SNUG IS THE WORD. If, you are going to use a 3/8 socket set, you want to hold it close to the head to lessen your strength.
TOOLS FROM HARBOR FREIGHT? They are CHEEP for a reason. A torque wrench from Harbor Freight? You are buying what SHOULD BE a precision tool that will be accurate when new and in the future.
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That's fine and dandy for someone that know how tight snug is or how tight something is with different types of metals. Anybody with some mechanical ability should be able to figure out what snug or tight is bases on the metals and assembled parts. Naturally lead is soft metal and batteries are 150 bucks or more a piece. For those with little or no mechanical ability that don't want to damage what they are fastening torque wrench would be good option, but you still have to know the torque or be able to find it?
I don't have problem with most harbor freight tools. Now if I was working on my airplane then I would probably get high dollar snap on, but if I was certified to work on my airplane then my torque wrenches would also have to be certified every 6 months or less by certified laboratories.