Battery Terminal Replacement
ID: 220094
Description: Follow this guide to replace a damaged battery...
Steps:
- Start with a clean work bench
- Use a 2.5mm allen key to remove the damaged terminals screws
- Use some small side cutting pliers to cut and break off as much of the plastic as possible.
- Inside the terminal there are small plastic teeth that lock the metal pin to the plastic part of the terminal.
- Use a small screwdriver or blade to bend these teeth out of the way.
- All need to be bent out of the way in order to remove the plastic part of the terminal.
- Use a screwdriver to wedge out the plastic part of the terminal.
- Push the metal post back towards batter while removing the plastic part.
- There is some glue in behind, but no other fixings so it will come out.
- Inspect and clean the terminal post.
- Carefully remove the end cap of the post.
- Use a blade to wedge it off.
- Line up the flat sides of the new terminal with the flat side on the metal post
- Place the plastic terminal over the metal post, and use some small needle nose plier to pull the post over the teeth so that they engage
- Reinstall and tighten the screws
- Reinstall the plastic end cap for the terminal post.