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Whilst fitting a new battery this morning my mind turned to jump starting.
The proscribed way is to connect a battery/pack to the starter motor. On my car the cabling around the starter leaves little room to get even small alligator clips on without the risk of sparking and grounding and consequential damage.I think I have four options but welcome advice.......
1. Bolt a short length of metal strip to the starter hanging downwards, with a rubber sheath when not in use, acting as a connector for the croc clips.
2. Connect a short length of battery cable (capable of 250amp) with an Anderson connector. But this has drawback of making the car and my battery pack “dedicated”.
3. Connect a remote battery terminal somewhere, but where to be safe.
4. Just remove the battery cover plate behind the passenger seat and directly connect; a faff and still not much room
Any ideas?
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Geof
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Lift the parcel shelf (and tool tray if you have one?) and connect to battery terminals from above - easier than removing the plate behind the seat (don't think I have that on my '93).
Graham (G4FUJ)
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I have an anderson plug on my racer ..... to connect to it I have the anderson male with two tails of battery cable ending in big, jump lead sized, croc clips ....I can connect it to my backup .... or the backup of any unsuspecting paddock mate if mine's not handy .... or even 'croc clip to croc clip' to a pair of jump lead and thus to a nearby vehicle.
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Lift the parcel shelf (and tool tray if you have one?) and connect to battery terminals from above - easier than removing the plate behind the seat (don't think I have that on my '93). First choice I agree. This is easy enough if not loaded. I thought you could also jump start by putting jump red lead onto starter motor heavy red lead and black to good earth eg Block. Is this not the case?
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Your solution No. 1; Simple is best and saves the faff of removing tool tray or battery cover.!
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Some good replies, thanks.
Eurosystem0...yes connecting to starter red and an earth is the “proscribed” way. Sorry I was short on description.
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Err - just a bit of pedantry - I don't think "proscribed" is what you mean. The definition is, "(of a government or other authority) to not allow something".
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I went the Anderson connector route one end on the starter motor the other on the engine mount and have various length tails, one of which I carry in the Morgan ![[Linked Image]](https://www.tm-img.com/images/2020/06/20/20200620_180530.jpg)
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Err - just a bit of pedantry - I don't think "proscribed" is what you mean. The definition is, "(of a government or other authority) to not allow something".
Yaw kwite write. I fink mi spelins orful. (Quite difficult to do this with spell checker).
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I went the Anderson connector route one end on the starter motor the other on the engine mount and have various length tails, one of which I carry in the Morgan That looks a great solution. Feel another little jobby coming up.
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