problem with power cable attaching to battery

[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

where i attach the power cable to the battery terminal has become messed up.. like the stock harness that controls all of the cars electrical functions is ok... but the screw overhangs about 5-10 millimeters and previously i was able to simply hook the power cable on this overhang and tighten a nut over it to make it nice and firm

well aparently somehow it grounded out and the screw past the stock harness has literally melted off... the threading melted off and now the nut holding on the power cable is very loose but stuck on there...

the power cable is still attached, but EXTREMLY loose... like i can wiggle it all around and its very loosely connected... but the nut that holds it in place has the thread melted around its own threading and now it wont come off! whenever i try to take it off to release the stock harness it wont come out... the threading is just gone and melted into the other nuts threading...

now my system still works... pounds as hard as ever... but will this affect anything? im mostly worried about the loose connection causing the battery to drain ? to be honist the only time i listen to my system is rides to and from campus and the last thing i want is to be stranded on i-95

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[PhatTonyDeMarco 5,000+ posts]

You need to find out why and where it grounded out, and fix it from there. If it melted, there's a reason why, and it can't be anything good.

If you have to, pull the battery out (cut the wires that you can't get off) and replace the bolt. If it is melted IN the battery, then deffinitly replace the battery.

 

[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

You need to find out why and where it grounded out, and fix it from there. If it melted, there's a reason why, and it can't be anything good.
If you have to, pull the battery out (cut the wires that you can't get off) and replace the bolt. If it is melted IN the battery, then deffinitly replace the battery.

i think it was the way i had ran the power cable to the terminal... it was wrapped around long-ways around the battery, but i re-wired it (from the fuse side) so it wont be knocked loose against the negative terminal which i assume is what happend...

edit:: i forgot to mention, this all started because my car wouldent start... and when i poped the hood the clamp harness that goes around the battery terminal was loose also, it was when i had tightend it that it wouldent come back out... so i think previously i hadent had tightend it all the way and when it came loose it bumped against negative terminal

 

[Fattony911 10+ year member]

huh that sucks, Have you tried EVERYTHING possible to try get it off? My opinion would be that it wont affect it that much i have seen some pretty loose connections that haven't had any problems at all. But if it reallly bothers you get a new battery and a battery terminaly like one from stinger or something nothing fancy and take off the ground from the abttery and cut all the positive connsections and put them into the new battery terminal and install your new abttery. But that's only if you really want to do something about it, id just try to get it off, you have to believe //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[Twistid 5,000+ posts]

yea, i mean im not to worried about looks... and to be honist i cant very much afford a new battery //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif (**** school)... so a loose power cable connection wont drain the battery like a loose positivie terminal clamp would?