luc
Enthusiast
Do you think that DC did that in purpose or did they just had brain fade when they designed such a stupid and complicated way of disconnecting the battery?
You have to:
1/ Jack the car
2/ Remove the (6) lug nuts
3/ Remove wheel
4/ Remove 3 screws,1 pusch pin and 6 bolts
Start all over again in the opposite order without forgeting your torque wrench.
Well, here is a cheap, easy way to be able to disconnect the battery without even jacking the car up.
Sorry, but in order to be able to do that in the future you will have to remove the wheel and the battery cover one more time.
The idea is to drill/cut-out a 4" hole in the plastic cover directly in front of the positif + post of the battery.
You will use a rubber plug (same that the on that you have in front to acces the back of the fog lights).
Part # 4708057 and don't ask me why but DC call that a Trunk Seal Plug.
Try to center the hole as well that you can and make sure that you don't make it bigger than 4"
You can always add a little bit of RTV if you want a 100% air tight plug.
Also remember that you are disconnecting the + side of the battery so make sure that the free end of the cable don't touch the frame.(you can put a rag around it after it's disconnected.
Now with a 8mm socket it should take no more than 2 minutes to disconnect the battery.
Luc.
You have to:
1/ Jack the car
2/ Remove the (6) lug nuts
3/ Remove wheel
4/ Remove 3 screws,1 pusch pin and 6 bolts
Start all over again in the opposite order without forgeting your torque wrench.
Well, here is a cheap, easy way to be able to disconnect the battery without even jacking the car up.
Sorry, but in order to be able to do that in the future you will have to remove the wheel and the battery cover one more time.
The idea is to drill/cut-out a 4" hole in the plastic cover directly in front of the positif + post of the battery.
You will use a rubber plug (same that the on that you have in front to acces the back of the fog lights).
Part # 4708057 and don't ask me why but DC call that a Trunk Seal Plug.
Try to center the hole as well that you can and make sure that you don't make it bigger than 4"
You can always add a little bit of RTV if you want a 100% air tight plug.
Also remember that you are disconnecting the + side of the battery so make sure that the free end of the cable don't touch the frame.(you can put a rag around it after it's disconnected.
Now with a 8mm socket it should take no more than 2 minutes to disconnect the battery.
Luc.