Battery Connector replacement - part one.

Having found that disconnecting and reconnecting the battery is not made simple I decided to look into ways to make it a little easier.

from the river-based people I purchased a 'URAQT 12V 4-Way Positive Negative Quick-Release Pure Brass Battery Terminal Connector'

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and a set of '8pcs Car Battery Post Terminal Shims with Washers'

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/02/apparel/rcxgs/tile._CB483369956_.gif

The result was successful (as in the engine starts and charges the battery), though not pretty, with the connections nice and tight:

I stopped as I was getting too cold :-).

I plan to see if the cables can be re-routed / re-positioned so that the metal ends are upside down, which would make for a better connection or, failing that, strip the ends of the cables and terminate them properly so they are connected as intended, which is with the main connection being clamped in the middle and additional connections using either of the side bolts.

I also want to tidy up the various additions that have left a number of loose cables.

Things to note:

1) undoing the cable ends is best done first, before disconnecting the original connectors as they are very tightly done up.

2) the terminal posts are different sizes so different shims are needed.

3) as usual the windows and clock need to be reset after reconnecting

4) the + terminal does have a cover, I pulled it back for the photo.

I hope this may be of interest to people.

Paul

Edited 3 hours ago3 hr by Gamith
Various minor revisions to the spelling and grammer.