Non Reversed Battery Extending cable lenths

metzican

Suspension Lift
Location
Lafaytte, la
So today I picked up a new battery it does not have reverse terminals. How did every deal with this issue with all the cables being to short. If you did extend the cables with a jumper how did you make sure to isolate the positive connection so it does not short.
 

metzican

Suspension Lift
Location
Lafaytte, la
You could do this. But the positive post becouse close to the fender. And the cable lenghts are still not long enough. On the Oem battery. the negative is close to the front and the positive is close to the rear. The standard battery comes the opposite way
 

metzican

Suspension Lift
Location
Lafaytte, la
Maybe this picture will help people understand what I'm talking about.

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The negative cable can reach. The positive can't. Also where the possitve cable is I am worried about it touching the negative or grounding itself out
 

jmnielsen

Need Bigger Tires
Location
Lincoln, NE
On the positive cable you can see that the actual terminal that mounts to the battery can be unbolted. I took it off, and then bought a 6" section of cable that had an eyelet on one end and a terminal on the other from my work (interstate batteries). I bolted the eyelet on to the positive cable and then I had no issue reach the positive.


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jmnielsen

Need Bigger Tires
Location
Lincoln, NE
Do you remember what gauge that cable was? Did you just put electrical tape over that eyelet or shrink tubing?

I don't know what gauge it was, I can check later. No tape but I didn't reverse the battery I just reached the cables over the top.


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metzican

Suspension Lift
Location
Lafaytte, la
So you had no concern about the battery becoming loose and the positive terminal grounding out with the fender? If you can please take a quick picture for me.
 

jmnielsen

Need Bigger Tires
Location
Lincoln, NE
So you had no concern about the battery becoming loose and the positive terminal grounding out with the fender? If you can please take a quick picture for me.

I don't own the xterra anymore so I'll do my best to just describe it to you off of your picture.

While looking at your picture: My battery was flipped around, so the positive was on the bottom left, and the negative was on the bottom right The cables did not cross, and the negative was long enough to reach across the battery to be connected. I used a 6" cable the stretched across the battery to the positive terminal. Nothing ever grounded to anything it wasn't supposed to and there was never an issue. My coworker owns the xterra now so I'll see if I can get a picture.

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The negative cable can reach. The positive can't. Also where the possitve cable is I am worried about it touching the negative or grounding itself out
 

metzican

Suspension Lift
Location
Lafaytte, la
So I came up with a solution to this problem. Everything stock with the battery is 10mm. I am not going to recommend cable sizes choice at your own digression. All I can say is larger is better.

First remove your stock battery and buy your new better more improved battery I went with a Size 34/78 Diehard Platinum.

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Ignore the other one. I will do a write up about that when I finish getting everything for that project and installing it.

The positives and negative battery cables are not long enough to reach if you install the new battery 180 degrees rotated. If you install it like the stock battery. The negative with reach so please ignore the next step. The positive will still need to be extended. I would high recomend installing it the way I did so you don't create a short by crossing the cables

Installed like the stock way
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Installed 180 degrees rotated
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Before you install the new battery we need to extend the cables.

Negative Cable:
If you follow the negative cable. you will find this bracket about 6" down the cable. Remove the following bolt. Its 10mm.

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This is a ground wire spot so you will have to create a new jumper. But now as you can tell you can pull up the ground cable 3" so the cable with reach the post.

Grab a large gauge wire, Larger the better and create a jumper. I soldered the end which is preferred.

Bolt this jumper to each end to recreate the ground.
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Positive Cable:
I went to autozone and bought a jumper. Make sure you get one with the appropriate ends for your situaton. Since I got some nuw studs. Then ends where different then required.
The following would work in my situation.
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Now that both positive cable and negative cable are extended you can install any battery you want that will fit in the location.

Use the following chart at your own disgression.
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dhyde79

Titan Swapped / SAS'd
Founding Member
Location
Amarillo, TX
So today I picked up a new battery it does not have reverse terminals. How did every deal with this issue with all the cables being to short. If you did extend the cables with a jumper how did you make sure to isolate the positive connection so it does not short.

easy, I took it back to the store and made em give me one that was reversed so it fit right ;)
 

knightrider

Bought an X
Location
San Diego, CA
I installed a group 31 marine battery, twice the capacity and fits like a glove in the stock position. The terminals are on the right side but not on the edge like stock so the positive had to be extended with a short extension. I bought a 12 extension from auto zone and procured a proper sized terminal from work and crimped it on and covered it with shrink. Ended up being 2" long.

Not sent with the stupid auto guide app
 
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