Quality Battery Terminal Clamp

tkraak

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2022 JL392XR

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Does anyone make a nice battery terminal clamp like that for the 392?
 
This is a beautiful kit but not cheap.

 
This is a beautiful kit but not cheap.


Awesome, exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
 
What’s wrong with the factory terminal clamp? I never had need to upgrade that for all my previous vehicles. But wanted to know from your perspective.
 
What’s wrong with the factory terminal clamp? I never had need to upgrade that for all my previous vehicles. But wanted to know from your perspective.
Nothing wrong with the factory clamps as far as I am concerned. I'm coming at it from the angle of connecting accessories more cleanly.
 
If it is cleaning up the bay, I really like the solution from 813Fabrication.com. Its just a mounting plate, but then you can mount numerous things to it to help with cleaning up under the hood and have the right terminals in the right place. You can add large terminals for large items like a winch and a fuse box for smaller items like rock lights, grounding lines etc.

This will be one of my projects when I do finally get into a new wrangler.




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What’s wrong with the factory terminal clamp? I never had need to upgrade that for all my previous vehicles. But wanted to know from your perspective.
Four things:
One:
The factory terminals are stamped from thin steel, add some vibration and/or corrosion and it's asking to fail.

Two:
The negative side right near the post, is a very small connection, all the power the Jeep consumes has to pass through this very small amount of metal. See pic.

Three:
The positive terminal has a weird wedge mechanism for tightening around the post. After a few install and remove cycles, it will stop getting tight, and no amount of fighting with it will make it tight. As sensitive as our vehicles are to voltage, this can make all kinds of weird things happen.

Four:
For a lot of people there is just not enough places to attach accessories. winch, switch controllers, air compressors, hard mounted jumper cables.... all require robust power connections, and once you get beyond one or two, the factory terminals just won't do.

When I get a chance, I think I'll be swapping in some military terminals from NAPA, and making some custom positive and negative connector blocks with 100-200 amp breakers.

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Four things:
One:
The factory terminals are stamped from thin steel, add some vibration and/or corrosion and it's asking to fail.

Two:
The negative side right near the post, is a very small connection, all the power the Jeep consumes has to pass through this very small amount of metal. See pic.

Three:
The positive terminal has a weird wedge mechanism for tightening around the post. After a few install and remove cycles, it will stop getting tight, and no amount of fighting with it will make it tight. As sensitive as our vehicles are to voltage, this can make all kinds of weird things happen.

Four:
For a lot of people there is just not enough places to attach accessories. winch, switch controllers, air compressors, hard mounted jumper cables.... all require robust power connections, and once you get beyond one or two, the factory terminals just won't do.

When I get a chance, I think I'll be swapping in some military terminals from NAPA, and making some custom positive and negative connector blocks with 100-200 amp breakers.

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Thanks for the great information! Never realized these points!
 
If it is cleaning up the bay, I really like the solution from 813Fabrication.com. Its just a mounting plate, but then you can mount numerous things to it to help with cleaning up under the hood and have the right terminals in the right place. You can add large terminals for large items like a winch and a fuse box for smaller items like rock lights, grounding lines etc.

This will be one of my projects when I do finally get into a new wrangler.




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I really like that.
 
If it is cleaning up the bay, I really like the solution from 813Fabrication.com. Its just a mounting plate, but then you can mount numerous things to it to help with cleaning up under the hood and have the right terminals in the right place. You can add large terminals for large items like a winch and a fuse box for smaller items like rock lights, grounding lines etc.

This will be one of my projects when I do finally get into a new wrangler.




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Thats a cool idea, it says that plate does not work with our 392 Fuse Box but you can make one that does.
 
Thats a cool idea, it says that plate does not work with our 392 Fuse Box but you can make one that does.
I didn't see that it does not work on the 392, pitty.

As you have mentioned - with a little trimming it would work very well. - Or make your own.
 
If it is cleaning up the bay, I really like the solution from 813Fabrication.com. Its just a mounting plate, but then you can mount numerous things to it to help with cleaning up under the hood and have the right terminals in the right place. You can add large terminals for large items like a winch and a fuse box for smaller items like rock lights, grounding lines etc.

This will be one of my projects when I do finally get into a new wrangler.




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Damn , one more thing to add to my list.
 

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