Motorcraft WC96034 Battery Cable

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Junction To Starter CableMotorcraft WC96034 Battery Cable Review
The battery finally died and I needed to change it for the first time. Should have taken all of 45 minutes, including buying the new battery. Done it many times. The common lead cable clamp has been adequate for, oh, about one hundred years.But in 2008 Ford decided to replace the tried and true lead clamps with the most over-engineered contraption ever. My clamp is a folded copper (or copper plated) thingie with dual sliding wedges (?) that pull a steel strap across and through the clamp to tighten it. I assume it worked fine when new (I don't exactly test my battery clamp bolts on a regular basis) but after five years the bolt that pulls the little wedges together and the tightening strap were corroded into a single lump. No matter what, the bolt would not come loose. Spent a couple of hours trying to get the clamp to loosen.
And the way the clamp is designed, I don't think there's enough cable to cut it off and attach a new one.
This clamp set looks like a good fix, but means an extra couple of hours or more, plus doubles the cost of replacing a battery.
Ford, this is almost as boneheaded as reengineering the air conditioning hose connections on the Taurus so they leaked all the freon out every year.
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