StangTime
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So I have been gradually upgrading the audio system in this car. It has been an uphill battle all the way and then some. Finally getting to where I need to hook up a 4ga wire to the + battery terminal. That should be easy I say. Everyone else has done it. I can too. Wrong!
I attached this ring terminal to the end of my fuse block wire:
The + battery terminal have wedges that are used to tighten the terminal to the battery post. They are coated with black oxide to reduce corrosion. That also makes them a poor surface for conduction.... ok move on to another solution. I saw in another post that somebody used the clamping bar that goes through the battery terminal to attach a ring terminal. I can do that instead... nope. Took apart the terminal clamp and discovered my ring terminal hole is too narrow for the flat bar to go through so I enlarged the hole. Thought I was on my way and then when reassembling the clamp. the bolt with the square head would not go up through the hole in the flat bar because my ring terminal was too thick... of course. So now I'm at the point where I'm getting so annoyed with it that I want to rip that mother effing battery terminal off altogether. That would be easy if the + terminal was like the - terminal and was attached with a nut. Nope... the + battery terminal is crimped to the wire and cannot be removed without some destructiveness. Thanks Ford.
I have 2 options at this point. Machine down the ring terminal so it's thin enough to work with the clamping mechanism, reducing it's strength and creating the possibility that it will crack. The ring terminal is about 0.25" thick and I would need to machine it down to 0.10"
Or cut-off the OEM battery terminal and use some after market multi conductor post and hope that I can get the heavy gauge + wires to be secured well enough.
Anyone replaced the OEM + battery terminal with something else? Looking for ideas.
I attached this ring terminal to the end of my fuse block wire:
The + battery terminal have wedges that are used to tighten the terminal to the battery post. They are coated with black oxide to reduce corrosion. That also makes them a poor surface for conduction.... ok move on to another solution. I saw in another post that somebody used the clamping bar that goes through the battery terminal to attach a ring terminal. I can do that instead... nope. Took apart the terminal clamp and discovered my ring terminal hole is too narrow for the flat bar to go through so I enlarged the hole. Thought I was on my way and then when reassembling the clamp. the bolt with the square head would not go up through the hole in the flat bar because my ring terminal was too thick... of course. So now I'm at the point where I'm getting so annoyed with it that I want to rip that mother effing battery terminal off altogether. That would be easy if the + terminal was like the - terminal and was attached with a nut. Nope... the + battery terminal is crimped to the wire and cannot be removed without some destructiveness. Thanks Ford.
I have 2 options at this point. Machine down the ring terminal so it's thin enough to work with the clamping mechanism, reducing it's strength and creating the possibility that it will crack. The ring terminal is about 0.25" thick and I would need to machine it down to 0.10"
Or cut-off the OEM battery terminal and use some after market multi conductor post and hope that I can get the heavy gauge + wires to be secured well enough.
Anyone replaced the OEM + battery terminal with something else? Looking for ideas.
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