I've got power coming out of the negative side of my battery???

[HSkinner]

K' Just finishing up my truck and I was dialing in the carb when I went to crank it over and lost all power to everything. I checked for the obvious stuff and got the tester out and discovered that the entire block, frame etc. had power going through it. The positive side had nothing... I freaked and unhooked the battery and started checking for a grounded wire somewhere and found nothing. I never saw a spark of any kind. no burnt fuses. I waited a bit and reconnected the battery and it started right up and I havent had a problem since. What would cause this? It's a brand new battery from Wallys Wolrd and I'm nervous it could happen again. Any suggestions.

[jbgroby]

Whoa, Freaky battery, better bring it back and cash in at wal=mart, must be defective to the extreme.

[trevota]

bad connection?????????

[100%Chevy]

I have to question what your meter was set on and where did you have your 2 meter leads to read power?
I suspect the initial no-start was a bad connection.
How you read power everywhere is not possible if you get nothing on the positive as the battery is the power source.
Mike.

[HSkinner]

I was using a test light and nothing else.

[61_FL_Apache]

Bad ground to the battery. I had something like that happen to me.