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Why should i not go down battery size cca in my 98 dodge ram 1500 is 650 cca okay for afew days or will it mess something up

I have a 650 cca battery from my ranger and i need to use it on my ram for 2 days just to drive to work nothing tough though just there and back

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It will work fine. The CCA is a rating of how much power that the battery is capable of delivering at once and as the name suggests, cold cranking amps, is needed more in cold temperatures. As long as you are not in the arctic, it should be fine for a couple of days.

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As long as the starter motor doesn't stall. When a starter motor stalls, or any electric motor, this motor will start to overheat and can suffer damage after getting too hot. Momentarily stalling a motor once or twice is no biggie.

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No should be fine. I had a 2012 ram and it called for a 850cca I put a 1350cca in the truck. All it did was crank over faster. Didn’t hurt it at all. And has a lot better starts in cold weather

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CCA is just the rating for cold cranking amps that the battery can deliver. Your starter doesn't use that much, but will use 30 or 40 amps. Going from an 800 CCA battery to a 650 CCA battery won't do anything. You may see a difference in how the starter turns over in the dead of winter.

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    Robert Wood Jul 18, 2019

    A starter will use 150-200 amps in a V8 engine .

  • jws1013 Jul 19, 2019

    Correct, I made a mistake.

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