A friend asked if I could look at their Chrysler minivan. I looked up the symptoms online and the common problem seemed to be corroded and/or loose battery connections.
Well, that’s what they have so I’d like to replace these with good old lead terminals but I’m wondering if the hive can help me pick the best route.
Also, someone hooked up a power wire to the negative terminal. Haha gonna try and figure out what it was supposed to do (maybe they wanted an extra ground and that was the only wire they had??).
As you can see there isn’t much slack in the wire to let me cut back the bad and reach the terminal. I’m thinking about buying terminals with pigtails and crimping them onto the stock wires that I’d cut back
How about switching to a side-post-terminal battery?
Toyota uses very similar terminals. I don't know about FCA but the Toyota ones have been superceded and the new parts are more robust and made of better materials. Don't know if that is helpful.
Theres a kind at the parts store that has brass connectors that clamp to the factory cable with an allen plug, extendin the cable and replacing the battery terminals. Maube the droid your looking for?
you could do a top post adaptor bolted to a replacement side terminal. that should get you the 90* over the side of the battery you're needing
You guys rock. I’m not a fan of a bunch of adapters but I think that would work swimmingly. Better than the hoseclamp solution I put on for the interim
I agree with the top-to-side converters. Then I would get some of these. Use a vise to crush them, then use a torch to throw a bunch of solder in it. Shrink tube and done. Really clean install. I did this exact thing in my boat because I didn't need a huge marine deep cycle battery. The only thing it ever does is start a 4-cyl, so I just did a cheap battery and used the converters.
ChasH
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6/5/19 5:17 p.m.
I'd clean up the terminals and leave them in place. What is the problem these terminals cause?
