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bgabrielse06@hotmail.com Enthusiast

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so im trying to hook up some lights on the rear bumper of my truck,facing the rear, for when i hook up to trailers, and for extra light at night. i got all the wires ran already, but i can not get a wire hooked up to the battery for the life of me. my battery has the terminals on the side, they are flush, and the battery cable has a bolt on it that goes into the battery, but there is not enough threads on it, and its not long enough to screw in after i hook up my wire to it. are there any wires under the hood i can splice into for power? or should i just try to splice it into the cigarette lighter wires.

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so im trying to hook up some lights on the rear bumper of my truck,facing the rear, for when i hook up to trailers, and for extra light at night. i got all the wires ran already, but i can not get a wire hooked up to the battery for the life of me. my battery has the terminals on the side, they are flush, and the battery cable has a bolt on it that goes into the battery, but there is not enough threads on it, and its not long enough to screw in after i hook up my wire to it. are there any wires under the hood i can splice into for power? or should i just try to splice it into the cigarette lighter wires.

 

 

There must be enough threads for it to attatch to a thin flat ring terminal. Just attatch the wire to a small ring terminal and hook it on that way you dont need to cut and you can determine yourself what size fuse to put on it and if the fuse blows you won't lose other things with it

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i tried the small ring terminal, does not work! tried for a half hour. ive wired up countless sound systems, fog lights, etc..., i just can not get it on. i guess i will try harder tomorrow, got frustrated tonight so i gave up. you have a good point with the fuse thing, thanks for the comment!

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i tried the small ring terminal, does not work! tried for a half hour. ive wired up countless sound systems, fog lights, etc..., i just can not get it on. i guess i will try harder tomorrow, got frustrated tonight so i gave up. you have a good point with the fuse thing, thanks for the comment!

 

 

not sure what doesn't work about it however they make ones that are yellow size that the ring sticks out well past the area where the wire attatches, not sure if that will work or not but if it was me I would use one of those, if it won't fit on the bolt I would cut it so it was a U instead of a ring and bend the ends of the U apart until it fit on the bolt, then I would put the wire in and smash it with a hammer so it was as flat as possible, it must attatch unless there is only one thread in the battery which I seriously doubt is the case.

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They sell a special bolt at auto parts places that you can use. It replaces the factory bolt. There is a smaller bolt that bolts into the large bolt. You use the smaller bolt to wire up accesories with ring terminals. They are usually brass and are gold in color. This one is silver. Click here

chakis24 Senior Enthusiast

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isnt there a constant power wire in the trailer hitch? why not hook to that and wire the switch from that? either run the switch to the dash, or install the switch in the bed?

cghbuilder86 Enthusiast

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Yeah, there is a ridge around the rubber that fits into a groove on the battery it is made to seal up tight. There is no way to put a "0" ring under it. Even with a longer bolt The rubber seal is not going to allow the teminal to seat right with an "0" ring under it. You could just put the wire against the batter terminal, sandwich it in. Or you can buy the adapter which is what I would recommend. I happen to have some pics handy from when I installed and amp on my truck.

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bgabrielse06@hotmail.com Enthusiast

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yes! thank you colby!, this is the first time ive ever wired something up on this truck, my last two cars have had the battery terminals on the top, which made it easy. but thanks guys, i didnt know they made an adapter for it. i will go to advanced auto parts tomorrow and see if they sell it!

sonjaab Senior Enthusiast

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Go to a SNOWPLOW dealer/installer !

 

They have a special bolt that replaces the factory batt. cable bolt specially

made to attach ring cable ends to run power to the plow motor.

 

Prob. the same deal 06Sierra mentioned !

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Yeah, there is a ridge around the rubber that fits into a groove on the battery it is made to seal up tight. There is no way to put a "0" ring under it. Even with a longer bolt The rubber seal is not going to allow the teminal to seat right with an "0" ring under it. You could just put the wire against the batter terminal, sandwich it in. Or you can buy the adapter which is what I would recommend. I happen to have some pics handy from when I installed and amp on my truck.

 

thank you, good to know about this battery terminal adapter

Wingnut Senior Enthusiast

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Oh, and for what it's worth, I've trimmed away the rubber around the terminal in order to sandwich an o-ring connector in there on an older truck.

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