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MECHANIC DIESEL - CITS

EXERCISE 8.5: Practice on jump starting of a battery

Objectives

At the end of this exercise you shall be able to
• perform jump starting of a vehicle.

Requirements

Tools/Instruments Materials

• Trainee’s tool kit - 1 No. • Waste cotton - as reqd.
Equipments/Machines • Cloth - as reqd.
• Jumper cables
• A light motor vehicle with full • Positive & negative -1 set
charged 12v battery - 1 No • Safety goggle -1 pair

• A light motor vehicle with • Apron -1 No,
discharged 12V battery - 1 No • Plastic sheet - 2 No

Procedure

Servicing fuel tank and remounting of fuel tank

1 Park the vehicle to be started on level ground and apply hand brake
2 Open the bonnet and secure with the holding lever
3 Park the full charged battery vehicle close to the hood of battery down vehicle so that jumper cables easily will
reach both batteries and apply hand brake.
4 Open the bonnet of booster vehicle and secure with the holding lever
5 Remove the ignition key and turn of all electrical accessories on the both vehicles
6 Connect the jumper cable clamp of the positive jumper cable (Red colour) to the positive terminal on the weak
battery
7 Connect the clamp at the end of the positive jumper cable to the positive terminal on the booster battery
8 Connect the jumper cable to the negative terminal (black colour) jumper cable to the negative terminal on the
booster battery
9 Connect the clamp at the other end of the negative jumper cable to the ground on the week battery vehicle
away from the battery.

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