- In this video,
I'm going to show you how to fix some strip threads
in a side battery terminal.
(whooshing)
And the problem with these side terminal batteries is that
they strip out and you can see all the led in there.
And that's the problem those threads,
are lead
and they're very soft and very easy to strip out.
So you don't want to over-tighten those
or this will happen.
But easy fix,
I went to the ACE hardware store
and I got a one inch,
three eighths by sixteen coarse threads bolt
is which what these, these threads are.
And you wouldn't have to take the battery out
but I wanted to so you could see this better
and what was going on
and I also wanted to get this started
where I could get it started real straight.
It's kind of a limited area when it's in the truck
but you could eliminate getting this...
...taking it out and just doing it in the pickup.
And you'll also want to get a
three eighths course thread nut to put on that bolt
and we'll, I'll show you how that works here
in just a little bit.
But the idea is that this will go in deeper
and catch some threads that,
that are not stripped out (metal scrapping)
and you don't want to tighten it too much or go too deep
'cause you can actually put a hole in the battery
and that's what this nut is for. (metal scrapping)
We'll actually tighten the nut to the terminal
but you want to clean that off real well,
your battery terminals.
I used a wire brush to clean them and some battery cleaner,
get that nice and clean.
Then I also did the same thing on the truck.
(metal clanking)
Now this one, (metal scraping)
already had the ring exposed like that.
If not,
you may have to take that off
so you can use this method, (metal scraping)
but this was already like that.
And you want to clean that as well
both the positive and the negative (metal scrapping)
and remember when removing the battery cable
you want to take the negative off first
and then the positive.
And then whenever you're installing it
you want to reverse that,
you want to put the positive on first and then the negative.
Now they do make a fitting for this,
an adapter to do this.
I could find it on Amazon.
I could find it like,
I went to all the parts stores
they could order it,
but this is my son's truck
and he was needing this fixed right now.
You know, he didn't have time to wait,
he needs to get to work.
So we went ahead and used this method
and it costs less than a dollar to do this, so...
And I'm just showing you on that negative,
it does have that rubber boot around it.
Well you'll have to get that battery terminal bolt out,
so you may have to cut that a little bit
where it looks like that positive lead right there,
but fortunate enough
this one was already all metals, which made it real easy.
So what you want to do,
and that I was hoping I could do this
where you could see it better
with the battery out of the truck,
but the, they was not long enough.
The battery cables was not long enough to do that
so I had to put it back in the truck.
But I did get the bolt and get it started in straight
while it was out of the truck, which made it easier.
But now I'm just tightening it by hand
and you don't want to get this too tight.
Like I said, you don't want to punch a hole in the battery
and the acid leak out.
So I'm going to tighten it by hand
and then I'm going to get a wrench to finish tightening it.
So I'm just going to snug that on there,
as soon as it bottoms out,
that's about as far as you want to go
because we're going to finish tightening it by
with the nut.
We're going to loosen the nut
which will tighten the,
the terminal on there.
So I can go ahead and snug that down
and snug right, right there.
And now how you're going to tighten this up,
is you're going to loosen that nut
which will get tight up against the terminal
and again, you don't want to just crank down
and over tighten that either.
You just want to get that nice and snug
and that battery terminal will be on there nice and tight.
This is a common problem that happens with these batteries,
the threads are so soft. (engine whirring)
You have to be careful with these batteries.
But, batteries are expensive
and especially this type
and you certainly don't want to have to run out
and buy a new battery just for some strip threads.
Now this one does also have top posts
which we could have changed the battery cable
but he uses that for his stereo system,
so we will leave that alone and go ahead
and just fix his threads in the side of the battery,
side terminal so...
You also want to put some stuff to prevent it
from corroding on there, which we've done.
And then once that's hooked up
you can see here that it's nice and tight and snug
and once you do that,
put the nag, negative battery cable on,
and then you're done.
So, pretty simple process,
like I said you wouldn't have to take it out.
Now, both terminals are on.
So this is the steps I took to fix the strip threads
on the battery terminal.
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