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I just did a routine maintenance on my Motorcraft stock replacement battery.
I pulled the battery, put it on a flat table and pulled the fill caps.
After reading in all three manuals and watching multiple youtube vids, everyone kept saying "fill to level of the split rings." I didn't see any split rings. Then, one one of the youtube vids featuring someone at least dressed as a tech it said "fill to the bottom of the fill tubes" which is what I did. I brought the fluid level up to where the top of the fluid was just touching or a hair below the bottom of the fill tube for each cell.
Is that the correct fill level or did I fill it too much?
I used distilled water.
[Note: also posted this to misc electrical but posting here too since posts to this subforum always get great responses.]
I pulled the battery, put it on a flat table and pulled the fill caps.
After reading in all three manuals and watching multiple youtube vids, everyone kept saying "fill to level of the split rings." I didn't see any split rings. Then, one one of the youtube vids featuring someone at least dressed as a tech it said "fill to the bottom of the fill tubes" which is what I did. I brought the fluid level up to where the top of the fluid was just touching or a hair below the bottom of the fill tube for each cell.
Is that the correct fill level or did I fill it too much?
I used distilled water.
[Note: also posted this to misc electrical but posting here too since posts to this subforum always get great responses.]
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