retro 4,048 Posted November 17, 2023 1 hour ago, jeepwm69 said: I’m pretty sure the battery is shot, but I also think these terminals likely need to be cleaned up, with the wire trimmed back and re-clamped. The heating of the clamps and cables are 100% caused by poor, high resistance connections where the cables attach to the clamps. If you can shine up the stranded copper wire and the clamps and solder those cables down, that will fix it forever. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites