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| | | | Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 220 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 220 | Has anyone made a recent purchase of battery cables. I am getting close to starting my truck after a couple of years and want to replace my battery cables.
I found some in the "Truck Shop" (orange county) catalog but from the photo they don't look to be a very big gauge wire.
The positive cable in the LMC catalog has a crimp connector on the wire that comes off of it. After all this work I really don't want a crimp connection where it is visible. | | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | Tractor Supply Company usually has heavy gauge battery cables.
If you have a 6v system, you should have 2 gauge or less. 00 (2/0) gauge is what I use.
| | | | | Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 841 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 841 | i was actually at a auction and got a electrical crimp comector specificly for larger gage conectors a year or so back. it has large handles like bolt cutters. i cut back the insulation coating right up to the depth of the conector and slid it in and crimped it. it looks just like a factory cable and is very tight. i did the lug ends for my 6 volt system using heavy wire. | | | | | Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,552 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 1,552 | If you want the original GM, spring-clip, style battery cables, we use: www.wiringharnesses.comM&H Electric Fabricators, Inc. | | |
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