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Battery cable terminals orientation – Mad Hatta!’s bike

Phang

Phang

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While drooling at the photos of your Griso in the Griso Picture Thread :woohoo: , I noticed the orientation of your bike's battery cable terminals is different from mine and the one in workshop manual.

I know there are no hard and fast rules on how you should place the terminals as long as it works and you feel comfortable, but I am concern the way of your battery cable terminals connected to the battery may stress the terminals and cause breakage to it in the long run.

The battery compartment on Griso is a tight fit and has not much space to spare. If you look at the underside of the seat pan, it has two carefully thought out recesses mould into it to clear the battery terminals and cables when the seat is installed if you install them as per the service manual way.

Phang

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Yeah, I was going to say that!

I only recently changed mine which came with them fitted the same as Mad Hatta!'s. In my case they were catching on the bodywork and, as you suggest, every time the battery was moved the connectors were being stressed. I only noticed by chance looking at the service manual and then spotted those grooves under the seat to confirm they should be the other way round. I was cursing my dealer on the assumption that it was his doing when he prepared the bike for sale.

David
 
That's also the way it came to me.

I always thought it didn't look exactly right, but I left it that way because that's how it came.

Lesson learned: If it doesn't look right, it probably isn't so, check the manual.

Alternately, ask the forum, because there will be people who know.

-Jack (this bike's former owner)
 
Mine were fitted correctly, but possibly through some hand fistedness on my part I managed to stress and snap one of the cable ends where it bends through 90 degrees through repeatedly pulling out the battery whilst all connected up. So care defiantly required there.

I had enough tag left on the cable end to bend and drill it to reattach.
 
both my terminals cracked then broke . i run a ribbon around battery for easy pulling the battery out .
 
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