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Battery Terminal Replacement
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<blockquote data-quote="Creedence85" data-source="post: 335502" data-attributes="member: 4346"><p>The GM battery termals are a sketchy design, with the angled nut that tightened the terminal, and are prone to not tightening or breaking. I hadn't had any problems with mine until last summer when the negative terminal would not tighten, and while I was able to adjust it and get it to tighten, I started looking at how to replace the terminal. There is a thread on another forum where the terminals were cut and drilled to attached marine style battery terminals, so opted to go with this route. </p><p></p><p>I went with EverStart marine battery terminals from Walmart. They seem to be solid, are colour coded which I like, coated to prevent corrision, and I was there so thought I'd try them.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]122266[/ATTACH]</p><p>I drilled a hole in the flat area of the old terminal, and cut the rest of the terminal off with a Dremel, effectively turning it into a spade connector, and then attached it with nuts instead of the supplied wing nuts. There is just enough metal after cutting off the old terminal to drill a hole and file the edges. I removed the battery to work as there is limited space, putting a scrap piece of wood in the battery tray as a work surface when drilling and cutting.</p><p></p><p>There was also enough thread space to attach the battery maintainer cable on top of the nut and and then tighten it with a second nut. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]122267[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The boots fit over the terminals. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]122268[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The connection appears to be considerably more solid than the factory terminals.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Creedence85, post: 335502, member: 4346"] The GM battery termals are a sketchy design, with the angled nut that tightened the terminal, and are prone to not tightening or breaking. I hadn't had any problems with mine until last summer when the negative terminal would not tighten, and while I was able to adjust it and get it to tighten, I started looking at how to replace the terminal. There is a thread on another forum where the terminals were cut and drilled to attached marine style battery terminals, so opted to go with this route. I went with EverStart marine battery terminals from Walmart. They seem to be solid, are colour coded which I like, coated to prevent corrision, and I was there so thought I'd try them. [ATTACH type="full"]122266[/ATTACH] I drilled a hole in the flat area of the old terminal, and cut the rest of the terminal off with a Dremel, effectively turning it into a spade connector, and then attached it with nuts instead of the supplied wing nuts. There is just enough metal after cutting off the old terminal to drill a hole and file the edges. I removed the battery to work as there is limited space, putting a scrap piece of wood in the battery tray as a work surface when drilling and cutting. There was also enough thread space to attach the battery maintainer cable on top of the nut and and then tighten it with a second nut. [ATTACH type="full"]122267[/ATTACH] The boots fit over the terminals. [ATTACH type="full"]122268[/ATTACH] The connection appears to be considerably more solid than the factory terminals. [/QUOTE]
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