{"id":55068,"date":"2018-02-26T12:24:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T17:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/?p=55068"},"modified":"2024-02-11T11:43:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T19:43:28","slug":"positive-battery-cables-1996-sierra-4x4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2018\/02\/positive-battery-cables-1996-sierra-4x4","title":{"rendered":"Positive battery cables 1996 Sierra 4&#215;4 5.7l"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1995-gmc-sierra.jpg\" alt=\"1995 GMC Sierra\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1995-gmc-sierra.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/1995-gmc-sierra-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Battery cables keep coming loose<\/h3>\n<p>Positive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/battery.html\">battery<\/a> cables keep coming loose. I have a new dual post battery I would like to replace side post, can I separate the two positive cables, one one side post, one on top post, or do they have to remain in contact?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>You may separate them. As long as they are both connected to the positive terminals there essentially still connected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battery cables keep coming loose Positive battery cables keep coming loose. I have a new dual post battery I would like to replace side post, can I separate the two positive cables, one one side post, one on top post, or do they have to remain in contact? You may separate them. As long as&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2018\/02\/positive-battery-cables-1996-sierra-4x4\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Positive battery cables 1996 Sierra 4&#215;4 5.7l<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14899,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,22],"tags":[21379,21378,21380,512],"class_list":["post-55068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-repair-questions","category-gmc","tag-batery-terminal","tag-battery-cable","tag-battery-cables-keep-coming-loose","tag-sierra"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Positive battery cables 1996 Sierra 4x4 5.7l - FreeAutoMechanic Advice<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freeautomechanic.com\/mechanic\/forum\/2018\/02\/positive-battery-cables-1996-sierra-4x4\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Positive battery cables 1996 Sierra 4x4 5.7l\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Battery cables keep coming loose Positive battery cables keep coming loose. 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