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Your positive cable corroded and eat itself away from the battery and you need to replace the positive lead How do you do this on a 1999 STS?
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∙ 17y ago
this is a job for a shop as the cable run uner the intake manifold to the starter under and across the car to the alt. and the fuse and relay box on thr drivers side and the new cable is a three wire assembly
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∙ 17y ago
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