Where can I find some battery cable ends that will work on my cables. The wire is good but 2 of the ends have about had it. One positive and one neg. may change them all. What about a military type where you solder a terminal on the cable and attach.

 

I got some bolt on ends at NAPA. They were designed to hold the main cable plus 2 other smaller wires on side attachment. I did not do the Pos on drivers side battery due to the large and number of wires involved. This was a few years ago and no problems.

 

Thanks I googled napa but could not find any. There's a store not far from where I live I'll pay them a visit. The big pos. is one of mine that is bad.

 

Used a set of "military style" battery cable ends that are bolt on. I bought lugs for the cables where I cut the busted up factory ends off. Crimped on the new lugs and bolted on the new ends. does a very neat job. I cannot for the life of me remember the place I ordered them. I think it was a fellow on ebay. got all four ends for under $50.00 if memory serves.
I will see if I can get a pic for you.
Do a search on here for a thread on them.

 

Do a Google search for military battery clamps, many should show up.

Floyd

 

I found a lot of sites with the Military ends yesterday. I thought they would work better than anything else.

 

http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/se...ttery+terminal

 

http://order.waytekwire.com/productd...RY%20TERMINAL/

Lead free and cheap. Have to buy 3 of each though as a minimum.

 

Lead is to soft.. a couple of jumps with 500 amp clamps and they round off.. Use copper:

http://www.delcity.net/documents/pages/page_196.pdf

 

It does on my firefox..

Try the main page and go from there.

http://www.delcity.net/

I have some cables made of 2/O welding cable and the copper ends.. they are over 25 yrs old and still work fine!

 

Yes, I found it and deleted my post. Had to go to Explorer.

Thanks !

 

My NAPA stocks the military battery cable ends as well

 

Check out there installation video as well, they have solder slugs that have just the right amount of solder for each set up and an adhesive heat shrink tubing for battery cables..

 

I tried soldering before - I wouldnt recommend it.

You actually get a lower resistance connection from crimping plus its much more vibration resistant than the solder.

 

I myself have them crimped with a hydraulic hose crimper. Let's just say there is no voids..