Hello, I'm not sure why I'm failing miserably at something very simple.
November 2018, replaced a dead pepboys battery w/Odyssey 34R-PC1500.
Seems easy....right?
Factory negative terminal camp wont stick. Taper on the battery terminal seems steep. Bought a new clamp from amazon. Still wouldn't stick. Tried shims, no go.
Took it to a shop...They removed the felt corrosion spacer (to clamp at the greater girth of the post) and added a few washers on the clamp bolts to further add to the closing range of the clamp.
This worked for 1.5 years until now.
Now this terminal clamp just pops off again.
1) Replacing that amazon terminal clamp. Its too malleable and requires 4 different wrenches to adjust. This clamp is a POS
2) Picked this up from autozone
https://www.autozone.com/batteries-s...4_533248_23849
I'm still skeptical a new clamp will work because the taper on the terminal seems too steep. Why even taper the terminals??...I do not recall seeing this on any of the previous automotive batteries I have come across (3-4 in the past 1o years) I may have never noticed it either...
Factory positive terminal clamp has no issues because it is exerting pressure from both top and bottom of the clamp allowing it to accommodate a taper while the other clamp is exerting pressure uniformly. I am unable to find a negative clamp with a similar layout.
