Chrysler van Battery cable replacement

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I have a 1998 Chrysler Town and Country AWD 6 cyl 3.6L. The battery terminals and clamps have become very corroded, and the nut used to tighten the clamp onto the terminal is seized. I’ve decided its finally time to replace them. I was wondering if its possible to replace just the clamps on the end, or do i have to replace the entire cable? (see pics)

There is a screw in one of the clamps (i know this not a acceptable repair)that was put there to complete the circuit after the nut seized up which made it impossible to tighten down the clamp. One of our friends did the quick fix while he was helping me solve a no start issue.

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[Wyatt Talley]

[quote=”Prince Caspian” post=40191]Yikes!!! I was trying to zoom in on your picture on my phone and somehow I decreased your Karma. I tried to reverse it, but I have to wait 6 hours. I’ll fix it tomorrow. Sorry 🙁

Edit: I have tried to fix this, but it seems that I am now stuck on the main forum, rather than the mobile version. On the mobile version there is an easy +1/-1 button for the Karma rating. I cant see how to adjust it on the regular version viewing from my phone. I doubt anyone really puts much thought into their karma rating on this forum, but giving bad karma is… Well, you know. Mea culpa, I will keep looking into how to fix this.[/quote]

check the announcement on the main page for details to get you back into the correct part of the website.

[380]

I was able to complete the repair over the weekend. Everything went relativity well except for the startle at the end caused by the alarm system lol. But So far the repair seems to be holding up.

Though the battery did arc a little as i tried to reconnect the new negative terminal onto the battery. I don’t know if this is normal or not, but i don’t ever recall it happening during any of the other dozen or so times that I’ve reconnected that battery into that car. I reconnected the positive first and then the negative.

[Daniel]

That’s not abnormal

[EricTheCarGuy]

[quote=”spelunkerd” post=39741]If you are willing to go through a little more effort for a longer lasting fix, I would look at the kind of terminals that require you to solder all the wires together, directly into the connector. That type has a single blind pocket with no clamps for the wires, just a single bolt for the battery end. You should tin the wires first, then heat a little lake of solder in the pocket, then push the wires into the hot solder. Of course it’s harder to remove individual wires later, but this is a permanent fix that will likely never require revision.

Here’s a video of how one master teaches this technique.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5vkwWuDRGE[/video][/quote]

This is a much better option. That said why not clean what you have? I’ve cleaned up worse and had good results.

[Author]

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