Positive Battery Cable

If you want to replace it. Its not bad. You can use welding cable. And If you want to you can attach the new to the old with super tape and pull it all the way through to the fire wall.

Depends on whether you've got a '71 or later car. The '71c cable runs through the rt rocker panel while the '72 & up runs through the console. Neither exercise is exactly a walk in the park, but the '71 requires you to pull the new cable thru by attaching it to the old one, or you'll likely never get it threaded through. Removing the seat belt attach plate and rt seat may help as the cable ends catch on everything. Massive taping only helps a little. The late cable means removing the firewall console end, the firewall padding, maybe the rt seat and the radio as there are hold-down clamps inside the console. The cable would have to be pretty bad to make me completely replace it instead of only swapping an end.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by jack deryke:
[B]Depends on whether you've got a '71 or later car. The '71c cable runs through the rt rocker panel while the '72 & up runs through the console.

>>>Uh, that's the A/C lines, not the battery cable? Every car I've seen to include GT5-S runs the battery cable through the right-side rocker panel. On '71 cars it gets very crowded in there, with the two A/C hoses and the wiring harness.

I changed mine out for 00 welding cable by attaching a battery terminal clamp to the new cable, then bolting the two clamps together and pulling the old cable through, which of course then pulled the new cable with it. But it was a non-trivial exercise, made more difficult by the fact that my seat belt retractor holes are welded up.

Pull your passenger side inertia reel and you should be able to reach into the rocker panel and help the new cable through the various panels it needs to go through.

Mike

Thanks. I do have a new question now. Mike, you said you use #00 welding cable. Is that shielded? If not how do you insulate it?

thanks

gary