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Old 07-08-2003 | 05:02 PM
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My battery connectors are sad. For everything I do to my car, the manual says "first remove the negative battery cable." After so much action, it's looking pretty beat up, and to make it fit tight, I usually beat it with some sort of tool.



My question: is there something better I can put on the end of my cable that can attach/detach from the battery easily, and repetitively? I figure it might lengthen the life of my cables, so they don't have to put up with abuse.
Old 07-08-2003 | 05:04 PM
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Check stereo shops. Some of them have connectors that remail attached to the post, while the wire can be removed with a wing nut.
Old 07-08-2003 | 05:28 PM
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which part...the battery nipples ... or the terminals?
Old 07-08-2003 | 05:30 PM
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Originally Posted by FrestyleReaction' date='Jul 8 2003, 03:28 PM
which part...the battery nipples ... or the terminals?
You can milk anything that has nipples......
Old 07-08-2003 | 08:25 PM
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Originally Posted by UniqueTII' date='Jul 8 2003, 05:04 PM
Check stereo shops. Some of them have connectors that remail attached to the post, while the wire can be removed with a wing nut.
save your money and go to a autoparts store and get one of those

connectors, the stereo shops charge BIG BUCKS for that crap.



Baldy- if your near the coast or lakes or some ****, go to a autoparts

store that sells some boat ****, or go to a boating place, boats use

those terminals with the wing nuts on them, and they wont rust

or corrode as quickly.

Old 07-08-2003 | 08:27 PM
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this does not clear the hood on a FC, at least it didnt clear my hood, so it went in my Jeep instead.

Old 07-08-2003 | 08:38 PM
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That's pretty cool. Could you just modify the **** a little to make it fit? I'm relocating the battery on the T2 anyway, so it wouldn't matter for me. Where did you purchase that from?
Old 07-08-2003 | 08:52 PM
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i bought it from my local autoparts store

summit sells them, the **** just turns the power off

you dont actually disconnect the battery cable.



Unless you break the **** off I cant see it being modified,

it didnt clear by a long shot if I remember correctly.
Old 07-08-2003 | 08:53 PM
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in that first pic you modify the battery cable and put a eye

on the end and put it on the wing nut end, bolt the other side

up to the battery and leave that on at all times.
Old 07-08-2003 | 09:19 PM
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I have a circuit breaker on mine now. Got it at the old car audio shop I worked at. Works great. The one I have is 150 amp breaker, I believe.








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