battery bolt size/type

[thebigcheese]

What kind of bolt secures a the terminal onto the battery. I need a slightly longer bolt, just want to know what to search for...star headed bolt?

[Jacko]

Longer bolt may not tighten down all the way as it could catch on the bottom of the terminal well.  If you're not engaging with the nut while its sat at the bottom of the well, because of additional connections on the terminal maybe, then you need to lift the nut manually to engage, then tighten as normal.

[Fatbelly]

Most new batteries come with new fastenings, so lots of people have old ones laying around. Ask your mates. Or pop the nut out and take it down to the local hardware shop and try it on some bolts.

[greywolf]

I would add a bus bar or fuse block rather than put more than one or two additional lugs on a battery. My bike has both. The stock screw is an M6x1.0 if you ignore that advice.

[iansoady]

That's neat. although I'm not so keen on the exposed terminals to the RHS (unless of course they're earths in which case I would have used black heatshrink rather than red).

[greywolf]

The exposed terminals are earths. The non black wires are from a pair of plug in relay harnesses and an SAE connector for an air pump socket. The latter came as a set of two on the same red/white wire pair so one was going to be color coded wrongly. Sending white to earth would have left a live connector exposed when the connector was unplugged. I chose to forgo cutting the supplied colored wires and replacing them with black ones knowing all the wires on that bus were earths.

[thebigcheese]

The wire for the eastern beaver pc8 is on the battery along with the power commander wire. want to put the charging leads on the battery and leave them on full time, connect using the plastic charger instead.
might just take of the power commander wire and run it to the pc8, should leave enough room to get charging leads and the pc8 lead on the standard bolt....hopefully...will try tomorrow

[thebigcheese]

Got it done this morning. scottoiler, power commander, pc8 and charging  leads onto the battery. as suggested I just used a smaller screwdriver to lift up the nut under the battery terminal so the bolt would catch.