[Tigers] Ground Strap and Battery to body Negative Ground Strap

[Joel Martin]

# of strands seems to be a factor - not sure for the cable itself.  Cable
color should be silver? The part Theo references looks to be a 5/16" flat type
ring terminal - 3 would be needed?  BON indicates neg was a 14" woven cable
with a soldered right angle battery end - any correct type here?
 
Batteries I have found.
Interstate MTP27 @ $129
MotorCraft Max BXT27B with negative post on right $110 - cannot find any
pictures and ford dealers are no help.  Appears terminals should be on right
with pos toward rear fender and neg toward rear of trunk closest to passenger
side fender not middle of trunk?  Is this correct?  For correctness sake is
MotorCraft accepted in place of Lucas or is Lucas only points correct?
 
Thanks
Joel Martin

--- On Tue, 4/23/13, Ron Fraser <rfraser at bluefrog.com> wrote:


From: Ron Fraser <rfraser at bluefrog.com>
Subject: RE: [Tigers] Ground Strap and Battery to body Negative Ground Strap
To: "'Joel Martin'" <jmartiniii at yahoo.com>, "'Tiger List Serve'"
<Tigers at autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 11:39 AM


Joel
    The ground strap and battery negative terminal to ground are both
braided with HD connectors.

Battery is a group 27 - the original battery was Lucas with 6 screw in cell
covers with vent nipples and a vent tube.

I have an Interstate battery in my Tiger.  You would have to be going for
totally bone stock to want a Lucas battery and they are expensive - $200 -
$300 range for a repro AGM battery.

http://antiqueautobattery.com/batteries.html
This web site has those batteries and they also list cables for the Sunbeam
but I'm not sure there is a picture for them.

British Wire Inc lists the braided cable but I don't know what they have for
connectors.
www.Britishwire.com


Ron Fraser

-----Original Message-----
From: tigers-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Joel Martin
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 10:24 AM
To: Tiger List Serve
Subject: [Tigers] Ground Strap and Battery to body Negative Ground Strap


All

The starter bolt to body\frame ground strap and battery to body ground strap
in trunk - these should be 'braided' cables as opposed to cable with rubber
covering?  Any particular 'correct' type of connectors should be used?

The battery itself should be group 27?  Any particular brands accepted to be
'correct'?

Thanks
Joel Martin
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