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Top and side battery posts 200

posted by  someone claiming to be bben on  Fri Dec 10 12:40 CST 2004 [RELATED]

I needed new a new ground cable for the battery so for a laugh I called up the dealer to see how much they charge. $70. Me and the parts guy both had a laugh.
Anyway, the local parts places only sell single cables, with the proper terminals on both ends. To minimize voltage drop and corrosion, I did not really want to cut and splice the new cables. My battery has top and side posts, so I mounted one cable (top post) to ground the engine and the other cable(side post) to ground the body.
Besides the very small inconvenience of now having to disconnect two cables, are there any problems with this set up? I am thinking there isn't. And it all cost $20. Anybody done this?

thanks






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