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We bought a new battery for our 1998 Chevy S10 p/u but I feel like an idiot when I say I can't figure out how to remove the darned old battery. There are rubber covers on the pos and neg terminals, and I can't see any way to get them off or anything that is screwed on to hold them on. I've tried muscling them off, but it was a no go. I see a screw that I have to remove to take the battery out, but I have to get the cables to the pos and neg terminals off in order to get to it. Can you help please?
I should have mentioned that I'm not the most mechanically minded woman out there. I'm not helpless around an engine, but I still don't get how I remove the rubber covers and then get the wires off the cables. I couldn't pull or pry them off and I didn't see anything to unscrew or loosen. The info you have given is great, but just not all the info I need.
Thank you.
I should have mentioned that I'm not the most mechanically minded woman out there. I'm not helpless around an engine, but I still don't get how I remove the rubber covers and then get the wires off the cables. I couldn't pull or pry them off and I didn't see anything to unscrew or loosen. The info you have given is great, but just not all the info I need.
Thank you.
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You will need a 8 mm wrench or a 5/16 wrench to remove the side terminals on the battery. you must disconect the neg. first, then the pos.....when putting the new battery in , you must connect the pos. first, then the neg.
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try using a flat head screw driver to pop off the covers on the side terminals...they should pop of with very little pressuretry using a flat head screw driver to pop off the covers on the side terminals...they should pop of with very little pressure
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I should have mentioned that I'm not the most mechanically minded woman out there. I'm not helpless around an engine, but I still don't get how I remove the rubber covers and then get the wires off the cables. I couldn't pull or pry them off and I didn't see anything to unscrew or loosen. The info you have given is great, but just not all the info I need.
Thank you.
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