Hello does anyone know the gauge of the the 2 positive battery leads? the previous ower butchered the terminals off and put a top post and side mount terminal on the leads so I want to replace the terminals.
Thanks.

Sorry it's a 2000 Disco 2 incase the leads changed year to year

 

i don't have a picture handy, i had a similar problem. if you stop at a RV or truck stop they sell terminals that will take a full size cable one from each side. they are used when you hook battery's in series.

 

The gauges of the battery cables are metric -


40mm² for the battery to starter motor cable

30mm² for the battery to engine compartment fuse box cable

40mm² for the battery earth cable


The factory battery clamps are cr@p and work loose/stop tightening-up.

I replaced mine with copper lugs crimped on to the cables, and used battery clamps with an M10 threaded post.


Lives -





Earth -





Both -





With covers -



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You should really have some adhesive lined heat shrink on the cable lugs


Otherwise the cables are going to end up looking like this


For the OP, here's an AWG to mm² conversion chart: AWG to square mm Wire Gauge Conversion

 

I already have


I took those pictures (almost 2 years ago), just after I'd changed the terminals.

They now have adhesive lined heatshrink over the cable entry into each lug (just as you've pictured), as well as a new Genuine Land Rover battery.


EDIT: Pictures taken 13th March 2014












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Excellent,thank you all for the info, it's exactly what I needed. While I have your attention, I'm in the process of putting her back together after a head gasket installation ( I didn't disassemble it, I bought it like this) there are 2 green wires back near the firewall with eyelits on them, I assume they are ground wires, where do they go? also a yellow wire with an eyelit up near the alternator mount, where does it go? thanks for your help!

 

Earth (ground) wires are Black, the wires you've described don't sound like factory wiring.

Can you trace them back to where they originate?

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You should get a copy of the RAVE CD's. They have the ETM, electrical troubleshooting manual, that has all wire colors, sizes and connector locations.

You'll need to burn them to a CD or create a virtual drive with something like Daemon Tools and mount the images.

http://www.green-oval.com/data/lr/rave01.iso


http://www.green-oval.com/data/lr/rave02.iso


http://www.green-oval.com/data/lr/rave03.iso

 

You can also use WinZip to unpack the .iso image file to a directory on your hard drive, and then run RAVE.exe from there.

RAVE runs a lot faster from disk, rather than from a CD.

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Ok I snapped a few pics of the wires in question, the green ones are right near the connectors for the coil packs, one on each side. The yellow wire appears to be a repair to the red/white stripe alternator wire. I pulled back some of the loom around the green wires and it appears that there is some sort of capacitor attached to it? any help would be awesome.

Thanks

sorry my windows computer flipped my iphone pictures like it always does.