My battery connectors are sad. For everything I do to my car, the manual says "first remove the negative battery cable." After so much action, it's looking pretty beat up, and to make it fit tight, I usually beat it with some sort of tool.



My question: is there something better I can put on the end of my cable that can attach/detach from the battery easily, and repetitively? I figure it might lengthen the life of my cables, so they don't have to put up with abuse.

Check stereo shops. Some of them have connectors that remail attached to the post, while the wire can be removed with a wing nut.

which part...the battery nipples ... or the terminals?

You can milk anything that has nipples......

save your money and go to a autoparts store and get one of those

connectors, the stereo shops charge BIG BUCKS for that crap.



Baldy- if your near the coast or lakes or some ****, go to a autoparts

store that sells some boat ****, or go to a boating place, boats use

those terminals with the wing nuts on them, and they wont rust

or corrode as quickly.

http://www.ba-electronics.com/ccbt1.jpg

this does not clear the hood on a FC, at least it didnt clear my hood, so it went in my Jeep instead.

http://www.vehicle-wiring-products.c...hoto/02100.jpg

That's pretty cool. Could you just modify the knob a little to make it fit? I'm relocating the battery on the T2 anyway, so it wouldn't matter for me. Where did you purchase that from?

i bought it from my local autoparts store

summit sells them, the knob just turns the power off

you dont actually disconnect the battery cable.



Unless you break the knob off I cant see it being modified,

it didnt clear by a long shot if I remember correctly.

in that first pic you modify the battery cable and put a eye

on the end and put it on the wing nut end, bolt the other side

up to the battery and leave that on at all times.

I have a circuit breaker on mine now. Got it at the old car audio shop I worked at. Works great. The one I have is 150 amp breaker, I believe.





http://images.cardomain.com/products/lit/LITCB200.jpg

circuit breaker for the whole cars electrical?

never thought of that, I used to have a 100 amp Phoenix Gold

one for the stereo, then I took all the heavy duty stereo ****

out and took that out with it.



I dont remember being able to attatch battery cable to it

without using a smaller ring connector.

I had to "customize" a ring to get it on there. The one that fit the cable are too large. I've seen them as big as 200amps. Normally they are just used on high-end stereos systems, but I have had no problems with mine on the cars electrical system. So far anyway, I hope I'm not jinxing myself.... https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png



If I can find the charger for my digital camera, I'll snap a couple of pics. I still owe Lee a pic of the headlight cover too...

I just got a new set of battery terminal connectors. They were fairly affordable considering what some of the better brand names cost. The brand I have is Tsunami. They have two 0/1 awg and two 4awg connections on each terminal. Perfect for connecting all the (+) accessories you might want to run (ie CDI box, electric fan, etc...) and the negative terminal is great for all those extra grounds.



cost me $30 bones for both at a local stereo shop.



check out www.partsexpress.com as well as crutchfield they have some stuff also. The more popular brands are Monster Cable, Phoenix gold, Rockford Fosgate, Stinger, Lightning Audio.

thanks for the info, I'll start with the autoparts store, then go to a marine place. (they're right near each other)