How To Safely Tighten Car Battery Terminals. If your battery cables are loosely connected to the battery terminals all that electricity wont be. Today I will show you how to fix both of the.
There are lots of different ways to clean your car battery terminals but not all of them are safe or effective. Cleaning and Inspecting the Battery and Connections 1. If you had to replace a car battery or were cleaning other parts of the engine you would have disconnected the car battery for safety reasons.
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Its NOT fun having to jiggle the connection every time and risk somehow one day shorting out the battery because your in. Dont know which type of clamp you have but before attaching it to the battery tighten it to make sure that it is actually closing far enough to actually tighten on the terminal. Copper band or copper tape around the terminal then clamp on it should be OK then. Then use another rag to dry the terminals completely.
