2003 Cherokee, loose nagative battery cable! The original battery cable appears to have been installed upside down. The connector at the battery has two cables comming out at about a 20 degree angle upward. This seems to cause additional stress at the connector from engine vibration and caused the connector to become elongated and loose. Should the connector be turned over so the angle of the cables comming out is downward relieving the stress, or am I over thinking this? What does the "book" say? Help!

Thank you in advance for input, I know I'm being ****, but being a type "A" is tuff!

John

P.S. Turning it over involves cutting it out of the loom.

See post # 5 for photo!

 

Picture ?

 

New to forum, I'll have to figure out how to add photos!

John

 

scroll down from submit reply to manage atachments.

 

It's dark and raining right now, I'll add photo's in the morning.

Thanks,

John

 

never seen an angular terminal like that maybe if you cut some of the tape on the loom to relieve some tension

 

Loose ground cable will do really weird stuff. Get it fixed

My dads exes truck would have the speedometer go haywire and the radio would do all sorts of weird stuff, the electric locks would quit working sometimes.
It ended up being the ground cable. The truck always ran fine during that time as well.

 

Get new cable ends ...

 

Of course I could change the cable connector. What I'm trying to determine is if this is an engineering defect or by design!

Cheers,

John

 

Didn't happen to be a late 90's Ford Ranger did it? I had a 99, the exact same thing happened. Replaced an alternator and battery before figuring out what it was!

 

Not a ranger but still a ford... it was an excursion IIRC

 

Moved to Grand Cherokee tech.

Can you get a better pic? The one you posted is fuzzy. Maybe try another angle?

 

Good luck on the search...should be a number on cable to trace back its heritage . Sure looks like a Monday cable to me.