Today, nailed it all back together - that was fun. Or perhaps not. When the battery is in position, you can see the -ve terminal but it's hard to get to. There's a thick bundle of harness and there's the frame and between those two, there is not enough space to get fingers. Unless one has hands a lot smaller than mine . . .
You need to line up the small nut sitting inside the battery terminal, the end of the thick earth cable, a terminal washer for the battery charger and then push the retaining screw through all those items. But you can't get at any of it. Use of grease to hold fasteners, use of long-nose pliers to hold cables, fiddling with the bits you can reach of the earth cable, use of a magnetic probe to rescue the screw if it drops . . . and it does drop because you can't get hold of it. Liberal use of swearing. I don't know if that actually helps but it happens.
How many attempts to get it all lined up? Not only cannot reach, but can't see either due to hands, tools and the parts themselves getting in the way. Before something shifts and you have to start all over. Oh, the relief when eventually, feels like luck, the screw bites and you tighten up the -ve cable. Then you realise you still have the +ve terminal to do. Access is probably no worse, but there is the red plastic terminal cover, which thinks its job is preventing you from getting the charger lead into position . . .
I took some pictures but they don't add much to the one from yesterday. Anyhoo, job done. Don't want do that again any time soon.
You need to line up the small nut sitting inside the battery terminal, the end of the thick earth cable, a terminal washer for the battery charger and then push the retaining screw through all those items. But you can't get at any of it. Use of grease to hold fasteners, use of long-nose pliers to hold cables, fiddling with the bits you can reach of the earth cable, use of a magnetic probe to rescue the screw if it drops . . . and it does drop because you can't get hold of it. Liberal use of swearing. I don't know if that actually helps but it happens.
How many attempts to get it all lined up? Not only cannot reach, but can't see either due to hands, tools and the parts themselves getting in the way. Before something shifts and you have to start all over. Oh, the relief when eventually, feels like luck, the screw bites and you tighten up the -ve cable. Then you realise you still have the +ve terminal to do. Access is probably no worse, but there is the red plastic terminal cover, which thinks its job is preventing you from getting the charger lead into position . . .
I took some pictures but they don't add much to the one from yesterday. Anyhoo, job done. Don't want do that again any time soon.
