Walt, I haven't had any luck adding acid to a sick battery. Perhaps others have.
The simple way I look at lead acid batteries is you started out with acid and ended up with water. To bring the battery back from the dead, you need to perform a miracle, turn water into acid. The white crap on the battery's plates has hardened and doesn't want to make wine like it should when you recharge it. So if you can see the white sulfates/sulfides/SOx's, your battery will never come up to it's full CCA.
The charger I bought claims that by using the right frequency and wave pattern, it will desulfate the battery over a 2 month period. To date, only one battery came back, but not all the way. If your battery is low, you need to add distilled water and remove the sulfates by charging.
The key to battery like is not to discharge it all the way, keep it fully charged, and perhaps use a fancy chargers to clean the plates, desulfate, before the battery has a heart attack and dies.
That's just my simple view of batteries.
Mr. Wilson, hope your brother Jim bypass works out well.
Battery class is over, class dismissed.
This is just my opinion and not the opinion of TY or all YT's members. Tried to make this sound like I'm handing out a legal opinion:) Making a joke, OK.
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