

| Subject: | Re: How To Make New Battery To Starter Cable for 2.1 Vanagon? |
| From: | Geza Polony |
| Date: | Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:55:20 -0500 |
If your old cable is in reasonably good shape and you want to save money, clean up the ends and solder new lugs on. Unless it's physically broken, the copper stranding won't change in resistance no matter how old it gets. Copper is copper. Flux, like what they sell for pipes, helps make the solder flow faster and keep insulation damage down, too. One of the best mods I made to my Westy was soldering in an additional 10 AWG wire from alternator post to starter, and the same thing from the battery positive post to the aux battery relay. Especially in the early years (mine's an '84) the charging wires were marginal in capacity, leading, in my case, to lousy charging of both batteries. Probably the easiest, cheapest, most effective mod/repair I've done.
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