Every time I could smell the acid, the terminals were loose. By that time, you were also looking at an alternator on top of the two batteries.
The location of the batteries was not conducive to an operator keeping up with his operator's maintenance. Add to that the crappy few tools they got, along with a healthy fear of arcing out the batteries when they did not know which terminals to remove first. Anybody who has ever blown the top off a battery can tell you it is instantaneous and without warning.
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