Sparks from Battery pos terminal

[Argyll]

I was undoing the battery clamp when I accidentally dropped the spanner and it made contact between the clamp and the positive terminal. A few sparks flew but after 3-4 seconds I managed to prise it off.

 

Everything seems okay and the car starts fine. Is there anything else I should be checking?

[BulletMagnet]

Should be ok, but if you are worried, you could always check all the fuses to be sure.

[H5]

Just check that it hasn't caused anything to melt around the terminal and go through the various electric switches to check everything is still working. Worst case a fuse might have gone but it's generally fine

[Beavis]

Should be fine, after all you have shorted to earth so therefore not gone through anything else. Be more careful next time.

[Carbon Coops]

it will be fine mate done this on a starter once as i forgot to take the neg battery terminal off, trapped my hand burnt it fooked the end of the spanner and the battery caught fire oops lol it was back when i was an apprentice

coops

[Husky]

Ouch, batteries can and will melt spanners if shorted across thier terminals. and shorting a battery can reduce its life and permanently damage it. glad it turned out ok

I managed to make an excuse to short a battery as a "control" in a test we were doing. not a pretty sight, alot of poisonous gas was in the air that day and it melted our relay box to nothing (the other thing we were shorting was a 2000Farad capacitor block )

[Argyll]

Phew thanks for the replies guy's I was quite worried. Where exactly is the fuse box again?

[BulletMagnet]

There is one right in front of the battery itself...as for the other one...

[pathfinder123]

Accidental shorting from the positive battery terminal is the reason you should ALWAYS remove the negative (chassis) connection FIRST, and replace it LAST when working on a car electrics.

 

Doing it that way avoids a spanner on the positive battery terminal shorting to chassis.

 

S.