Changing Battery Cables-HELP!
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Changing Battery Cables-HELP!extra wires!
Okay, for those of you who know my on going saga, I'm replacing the negative battery cable. This is the first and hopefully last thing I will have to do to correct my crazy van problem. Yesterday it started every time no matter when I tried. It seemed that it was drawing harder than normal to start. I checked out the -cable and it has about 3 or 4 splits and actually chunks out of it! Green and oxidized in at least one place. It must be the original from 1990. Now a new problem,, the negative cable is long. Leads under the block basically, the problem is the accessories it seems to be carrying with it!! One wire leads away from the cable about a foot down and has a fuse casing on it. Another wire leads down in a sleeve with the neg cable. What the heck are these things? The universal cable I got from Canadian Tire store has no added wires on it and no place to connect them to the clamp! Help Help Help! The two wires are thinner by quite a bit and both black. Thanks again in advance to all my guru's!
Last edited by Hammerhead; Jan 11, 2004 at 05:37 PM.
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On the old top post batteries, we used to just crimp a large ring connector on the end of the small wire(s) and put the ring under the clamp nut. I don't know if this will work on a side terminal set-up or not. They should have some cables at the store with some short pigtails coming out of the end that you could splice to.
