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Re: alternator wires
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TWO MORE HELPFUL TIPS
CRIMP your ring terminals solidly, do not solder. You can have your local battery shop use their hydraulic crimper to put the ring terminals on your cables for next to nothing. I have a hydraulic battery terminal crimper which makes for an extremely solid connection as it crimps evenly around the entire circumference. Pliers and hammers just don't work, as they just flatten and distort the connection.
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Electrical current flows around the outside of each wire, not through it. Soldering the ring terminals to the power turn all those individual strands into one big wire with less total surface area than the 2068 of smaller strands. It also makes it less flexible and more rigid at the connection, which is undesirable
You also may have to file down the outside of the ring terminal that attaches to the alternator so that it is smaller and fits completely down inside the black plastic ring on the power terminal and tightens securely to the post and bottom. Don't let it sit on top. A lock washer and nut will work. Just tighten very securely, not overtighten. Excessive Force will break the alternator charging post. Use a small 1/4" drive socket to avoid this.
Top off the alternator connection with a new rubber cap to protect it ...1034AA000 ...$5.93
021806000 ...Nut ...$0.28
032006000 ...Spring Washer ... $0.10
Remember to slide the cap onto the end of the bare cable BEFORE you strip the wire and crimp on the ring terminal. Once attached and tightened, just slide up the rubber cap over the alternator post.
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Last edited by svxcess; 09-20-2011 at 01:52 PM.
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