When my car was torn apart I did a battery relocation, I ended up holding off then before I knew it lack of connections was the only thing stopping me from starting the car. So I rushed and used what I had laying around, 1 gauge terminals for 2 gauge cable and a hammer and punch to crimp it with. I need to redo this before winter finally decides to move out of Ohio, but I can't find anywhere to get the cable ends and a crimper. Anyone know where I can get these parts? By cable ends I mean the "lugs" such ar the one from the neg post to the body ground.
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tbovee
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You should be able ot find the proper lugs at a NAPA or even a stereo installation store. I agree on the soldering.
Here's a reply I made in a previous thread (which I actually had to dig up earlier today for someone else's question on the 94-95 side) for the process of making your own cables.
StangGT1995 said:The best way to go IMO is to pick up some welding cable and ring terminals like these to make your own cables:
Heat the terminal with a torch, fill it with solder, and shove the wire in while the solder is still hot. Put some heat-shrink tubing over the connection, and you end up with something better than new, without having to crimp on a connector and risk a bad connection that has a lot of resistance.
glowstang93
20+ Year Stangneter 
Another suggestion for somewhere that does this may be a Diesel Truck Repair or a truckstop that does repairs. I had my one lug soldered on and heat shrink taped at a local diesel repair shop. Good luck
Those eyelets work great when you solder them. Let me tell you how i solder those on battery cable. First you strip the cable back enough that the exposed copper is all that fits in the eyelet. Then i hold onto the eyelet with vice grips. With a torch heat the eyelet and feed your soderinto the eylet. You should now have a little bowl basically of hot melted solder. Then just push the battery cable into the eyelet and hold till it cools down. It works great and no need to crimp.
gunmetal5.0
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so should I use copper or aluminum eyelets? and what type of solder? resin core? does it matter what thickness the solder is? fill it half way up with solder, or all the way, 3/4???
Use copper, so the solder will stick. The rosin core shouldn't make any difference, since it just separates and sits on top of the solder when you fill it up. I did mine about 3/4 of the way full, so when the wire is put in, it does have some that overflows, but some also goes into the wire itself.
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