Stinger GM battery terminal question?

[gnet158 10+ year member]

What am I doing wrong? I have a 2002 GMC Sierra and purchased the following to connect my amp to my trucks battery.

Stinger GM battery tap (for the single power cable)

Stinger Pro ring terminal

First I removed the Positive OEM battery tap and replaced it with the Stinger. I then ran the amps power cable into the ring terminal (with plenty of exposed wire), attached it to the battery tap and then tighten everything up. I put the keys in and turn the ignition to its first position, my system turns on and everything seems fine. But when I turn the keys to the next position (to start my truck) I hear a click and everything dies. I am unable to start my truck and nothing turns on.

The only way to get the truck to turn on is to replace everything back to stock. Any ideas?

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[Raffi 10+ year member]

Make sure the Pos Bat terminal is making good contact also make sure the bat pole is clean...

 

[johnecon2001 5,000+ posts]

did you put the power wire for the rest of the car back to the terminal?

 

[SUB_URBAN 10+ year member]

Make sure that ghey red thing that hooks the rest of your car is hooked up and actually touching, sometimes it will like float and not touch its weird. Sorry to tell you this but you could have gotten a longer bolt for your bat at home depot for 70 cents and it would work better than teh stinger.

 

[gnet158 10+ year member]

“Make sure the Pos Bat terminal is making good contact also make sure the bat pole is clean.”

Yes it’s touching and clean

“did you put the power wire for the rest of the car back to the terminal?”

Yes I did, it went in this order, OEM power cables touching the battery first, then I bolted in, I then removed the smaller bolt to connect the ring terminal.

“Make sure that ghey red thing that hooks the rest of your car is hooked up and actually touching, sometimes it will like float and not touch its weird. Sorry to tell you this but you could have gotten a longer bolt for your bat at home depot for 70 cents and it would work better than the stinger.”

I’ll check for that, would you happen to know the size of the bolt you’re taking about? I called Stinger again and went back and fourth with the tech, he sound like he kind of knew what he was talking about. I went thru my installation step by step a few times. After asking him the same questions over and over he may have picked up on something. When I ask him how much of the 8 guage power cable I needed to feed into the ring terminal connector he said “about a quarter inch”. I then asked “so the screw on the connector doesn’t need to touch bare wire?”. He said it did need to touch bare wire. I think I was only feeding enough bare wire to touch the actual ring connector and the screw was hitting the insulation. I don’t know, I’m going to give it another shot this weekend.

Thanks for you help!

 

[SUB_URBAN 10+ year member]

good luck mine has done the same thing, all i would do is undo it and reconnect and it would work.

 

[gnet158 10+ year member]

Here's what fixed it.

1. The POS battey cable has a RED rubber housing round it. I needed to pop this housing off to remove the stock battery bolt. When I put the Stinger bolt in and hooked everything up nothing, no power. I then left the housing off and connected the + & -, and everything powered up. So I put the rubber housing backon but made sure that the part that touchs the batter was out of the housing.

2. Stripped back enough 8 guage power cable to make sure that the bolt in my Stinger Pro ring terminal was hitting the wire and not the cabling sheild. I didn't do that last time.

Everything works, thanks for your suggestions!