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well if you want to try and fix it, take the thing apart, just be prepared to throw it away if it\'s to far gone... sometimes constructive things come from working hands and minds... but battery acid is a bad thing, keep it off of anything important, water will neutralize it...well if you want to try and fix it, take the thing apart, just be prepared to throw it away if it\'s to far gone... sometimes constructive things come from working hands and minds... but battery acid is a bad thing, keep it off of anything important, water will neutralize it...
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After drilling each leg to remove my corroded batteries I found that each leg isa push fit allowing it to seperate from the body thus allowing a screwdriver to be pushed thru releasing the corroded batteries. Re-assemble assuring a tight fit to make connection and it works well. Good luck I was drilling 1 leg for hours and the other 2 took ten minutes.
If you remove the tail cap (the part that you unscrew to put the batteries in the flashlight) and the head assembly (the part that has the light bulb) you should be able to push the battery out. Wear some of those disposable latex gloves as that chemical that comes out of the batteries is very corrosive. Or at least wash your hands really well before touching anything, especially your eyes. Good luck.
Not sounding good. I have had the problem in the past with Mag lights and though they are good, I always seem to have battery corrosion problems.
What I have done is to get a non-metalic rod, wooden doweling has worked for me, carve a bit of a blade at the end, sort of like a long screw driver and work it into and between the batter and flashlight case. Not so hard as to deform the flashlight, but to try and break the seal between the corroded (I assume) battery and the case. Spray in some WD40 and work the dowel in and around the battery. Stop on occasion and tap the open end of the flashlight on a heavy rag laid atop a piece of wood to try and jar the battery loose.
By repeating this process I have been able to remove corroded batteries, but not necessarily save the flashlight, as some times the on/off switch is corroded as well.
Once you get the batteries out you may be able to clean the inside with some abrasive (steel wool?) to clean out the corrosion, but as I said, you may not be able to save the light.
Best of luck!
If you can remove both ends of the flashlight, find a piece of pipe that is slightly smaller in diameter than the inside of your flashlight, hold the flashlight body in one hand and the pipe in the other. place the pipe on top of the batteries then strike the pipe on a heavy hard surface that you are not worried about damaging. The blows should dislodge the batteries. Clean the corrosion thoroghly before putting new batteries in
Just below the battery tray on the drivers side there is a harness plug, you can view it best from under the car. Usually what causes your problem is the wiring coming out of the plug gets corroded over time because of battery acid. Very carefully peal back the tape on the harness and look for any wiring that's green in color, this is what needs to be repaired by splicing in new wires.
Check the Pink wire for high beams and the Dark Blue wire for low beams. Common locations for wiring problems are behind the headlights,
under the battery tray. Check for a corroded wiring harness connector
or wires at this location. If the wires or connections are found to be
corroded, repair or replace the wire or connector as necessary.
Several things on your cavalier could cause this to happen... If it's just your high-beams, low-beams, or DRL that are out (just one), start with the DRL relay (in the fuse box). If that's not it, and it's not the DRL, try the multi-function switch (the thing attached to the left of your steering wheel, the headlight switch/cruise control switch). If all that checks out ok the next place to look under the hood... there is a pin-out connector/harness under the battery box (located in the front on the driver's side) that may be corroded. It is attached to the underside, and not easy to see without a mirror. If there is corrosion on the battery box, this connector is probably corroded as well...anything that runs off the battery will find it's way to this connector.
Note for anyone else that reads this: Different people will experience similar problems, sometimes with the low-beams, sometimes with the highs, because of different corrosion patterns and the DRLs being run from different bulbs. Good luck...i hope this helps, please take time to rate me a fixya.
Thanks,not what I wanted to hear.i like to fix things
well if you want to try and fix it, take the thing apart, just be prepared to throw it away if it\'s to far gone... sometimes constructive things come from working hands and minds... but battery acid is a bad thing, keep it off of anything important, water will neutralize it...
U give up to easy.be more constructive.thanks, end of conversation.
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