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Battery cable

our old tractors need the most voltage they can get on a cold morning to turn over.
so when I updated cables on my 1957 TO35, I took the old cables to NAPA and ask for the largest cables they carried.

I think they are #1 size cables.

whether it helps or not I do not know, but I also bought a battery with the most cca cold cranking amps that would fit inside the battery box.

keep the motor tuned up, if you have good compression, non ethanol gas, you have a chance it will start on a cold day. I also keep seafoam in the fuel tank and keep the fuel tank full, to keep condensation down inside the tank as I do not use it much in the winter.

plan on changing the oil soon, so it has a coating of fresh clean oil as it sets during the winter months.

after it sets a few weeks, some crack the transmission drain plug and let a little oil run out, sometimes you get a little water that has separated to the bottom of the sump.
otherwise your hyd pump sets in that water all winter, some years I have done that others not,
 
Not sure what the factory used, but the 12v models weren't as critical for cable size as the 6v were. You
could get by with #4, #2 would be better. You can't go too big, just gets expensive.

Also moving the ground from the sheet metal to directly to the engine block is an improvement.
 
"Also moving the ground from the sheet metal to directly to the engine block is an improvement."

I think of this each time I work on my battery, why on earth would they have done that??

even on my old jeep, cheapest vehicle ever made, the negative cable goes to the frame of the vehicle

but I still have not changed it yet.
 
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