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Old May 27th 05, 02:52 PM
Don Stauffer
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Default Neon battery cable

The terminals on my Neon's battery had a lot of corrosion on them, so I
cleaned the terminals. I wanted to remove the + cable to better clean
it, and found I had no wrench that fit the nuts. A 1/2 inch is too big,
a 7/16 is too small. Anyone know if these nuts are metric? Or are they
an unlikely 15/32? The nut is too close to the battery holddown top to
get an adjustable around it- I hesitate to use one of those anyway, as
the nut looks like a soft copper. I have cleaned most of corrosion off,
but would still like to get the connection off, to clean inside of cable
connector and battery post.
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Old May 27th 05, 03:32 PM
Mike Romain
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Likely metric. An 11 M comes to mind.... The GM power terminal where
the small battery cable goes on the Vans is an 11 for sure.

Mike
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Don Stauffer wrote:
>
> The terminals on my Neon's battery had a lot of corrosion on them, so I
> cleaned the terminals. I wanted to remove the + cable to better clean
> it, and found I had no wrench that fit the nuts. A 1/2 inch is too big,
> a 7/16 is too small. Anyone know if these nuts are metric? Or are they
> an unlikely 15/32? The nut is too close to the battery holddown top to
> get an adjustable around it- I hesitate to use one of those anyway, as
> the nut looks like a soft copper. I have cleaned most of corrosion off,
> but would still like to get the connection off, to clean inside of cable
> connector and battery post.

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Old May 27th 05, 09:56 PM
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Neon's metric. I've worked on a friend's.

Seems to me, 10mm is the common size, but I could be wrong. Wouldn't
hurt to buy a rack of 10 to 15 mm sockets at your local discount house.
Probably wouldn't be much more than buying a single size.

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Old May 28th 05, 03:13 AM
Paul Hovnanian P.E.
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Don Stauffer wrote:
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> The terminals on my Neon's battery had a lot of corrosion on them, so I
> cleaned the terminals. I wanted to remove the + cable to better clean
> it, and found I had no wrench that fit the nuts. A 1/2 inch is too big,
> a 7/16 is too small. Anyone know if these nuts are metric? Or are they
> an unlikely 15/32? The nut is too close to the battery holddown top to
> get an adjustable around it- I hesitate to use one of those anyway, as
> the nut looks like a soft copper. I have cleaned most of corrosion off,
> but would still like to get the connection off, to clean inside of cable
> connector and battery post.


7/16 is 11.1mm, so its either a 12mm (more likely) or a 15/32 (less
likely).

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Old May 28th 05, 06:31 PM
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Aye, someone who knows math ;>O

I find that for most of the smaller nuts that 10mm and 12mm are the
most common. Don't think I've even found an 11mm.

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Old May 29th 05, 04:01 PM
Don Stauffer
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That is exactly why I wanted to find the right wrench (although these
are copper rather than lead).

Comboverfish wrote:

> But to reitterate what one poster said, try a 12mm, it's slightly
> larger than 7/16". Lead terminal nuts are good for wearing down from
> overtorque, rounding off, and corroding into new, non-hexagonal sizes.
>
> Toyota MDT in MO
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