Deka Battery Side Bolt Extender Installation - 2015 Chevrolet Express Van- Video
Hi there Express fan owners, today in our 2015 Chevrolet Express, we're going to be showing you how to properly add powered accessories to your side post battery using Deka's side posts battery extender. T.he problem we have with our factory bolts is that there's no room to add any ring terminals or additional wiring to it.If you try to, you can potentially damage the threads on your battery.If we go over here to our positive post, we've already got our extender in place, and you can see here, we've got plenty of room to add wires to power, any of our accessories.And we have no fear of damaging our battery.The post is made of brass. So it's going to be an excellent conductor.The bolt length itself is one and three-quarter inches, and this is important if your batteries in a tray, that's got a pretty tight fit. You don't want your battery positive, sticking out to work in ground on anything on the body.Let's go ahead and install it now, and we'll show you how to do that.We'll begin by removing our battery positive post.If you are worried that you may touch your wrench on anything grounded, you can take your negative terminal off first as this is recommended to keep you from accidentally shorting anything out.Once you've got it loose, we can just take it off here, and that will pull it back.Our bolt we'll then remove from the rubber covering, maybe helpful to use a pick or a flat-bladed screwdriver to assist you in getting out of there.Regardless of which vehicle you have, all your side posts are basically the same. They all use a very similar sized bolt and similarly shaped a rubber housing that keeps the bolt in place.And on your express van here, your side post, isn't going to be different than anything else.Your battery post is going to be inside of your rubber housing here, we'll just need to pop that out of there.So you can use a pick or a flat blade screwdriver to work your way behind the covering, and pop the bolt out.We'll now take our new one from Deka, slide it all the way in, and then we can reinstall it onto our battery.When tightening it down you want to make sure you don't over-tighten it as the lead material inside is a softer metal, so it is possible to over-tighten it.We'll tighten it down using a five, eight inch wrench or socket.The stud coming off of our post is one and three quarter inch length, which gives you plenty of length to add accessories and be able to fully tighten the nut on it.And the diameter of our stud is three eighth of an inch.So you want to make sure you purchase appropriately sized ring terminals to get all of your accessories mounted.If you need some ring terminals. So you can pick those up here at etrailer.com. more
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