Old Ford 'bolt through' batteries

[retro80sboy]

anyone know where the best place to get a new one of these at a decent price?Mines dead on my escort van, and just wondering if anyone knows the best place to get these batteries with this kind of connection?

[Milford Cubicle]

How does that work?

[Rusty Pelican]

Whats the number of the battery

[Pete-M]

Any half decent battery supplier will sell the normal round pole clamp converty things so you can use a 'normal' battery instead.

[Polystratus]

Do you mean these sort of connectors

http://www.countybatteryservices.co.uk/ ... -7864.html

 

Halfords still sell these type - bit more expensive though

[retro80sboy]

Whats the number of the battery

ill have a look later - its a bloody old one though, could be the original!Just forgot all about the terminal connections being different on these old beasts as I dont think ive ever changed a battery before on all the old Fords ive owned!.

[Richard]

Any motor factor should be able to supply one.

[FredTransit]

I was going to say go for the converters. Makes like much easier....

[Milford Cubicle]

I've never seen that type of battery terminal before, how do the connectors work?

[retro80sboy]

Do you mean these sort of connectorshttp://www.countybatteryservices.co.uk/ ... -7864.htmlHalfords still sell these type - bit more expensive though

yep thats the one.Got a day off tomorrow so will sort it out then. Might go for the 'converter'.thanks guys.

[Richard]

The cables have a ring type terminal and are bolted through holes in the posts. They were standard on Fords until the mid 1990s.

[Polystratus]

What Richard says flat type lugs were especially used on Fords, theres three types of battery lug as far as I know, die-cast helmet type which has a screw in the top, smmt which is the clamp type and flat lug.

[Rusty Pelican]

They look like this , tis easy to connect them the wrong way and blow stuff up so perhaps thats why they arnt common anymore

 

http://www.tayna.co.uk/037-Numax-Car-Battery-P981.html

[retro80sboy]

Didnt know they were used up until 1995. Suppose I could pop down the scrappy and see if they have one there, usually get all my batteries from there as they take the best ones off and sell them for about a tenner.saying that I may as well get a new one and then I wont have to worry about it again hopefully!

[retrogeezer]

Never had a problem buying one of these, got one on my Escort and one on my Fiesta at the moment.

[Father Ted]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FORD-car-battery- ... 3efc04830e

[Minimad5]

Wow hav'nt seen one of these batteries for many a moon !remember changing afew over when i was a kidAs my dad's friend used to have too many cars and batteries went flat all the time

[Timewaster]

Battery numbers for these "Ford" post batteries:Tall slim type:(Mk1&2 Escort, Mk1 Fiesta) 037 / 1377" x 7" type :(Mk3&4 Escort, Mk2 Fiesta) 083 (standard) or 085 (high power)7" x10"type :(Cortina/Sierra >2.0, Diesel Escort) 097Big Bastard Sierra/Granada Diesel/Transit 093Hope that helps.

[Station]

I found a brand new Bosch one of these when I moved into my lockup years ago. I always intended to use it one day, but it never, ever got touched and I think my dad disposed of it. TBH, I'd prefer this type of battery, those ring connectors are a massive pain in the arse to get on in even moderate sized engine bays.

[Barry Cade]

The batteries you get (or used to) at Kwik-Fit were 2 in 1. round normal posts,but if you levered them off, they had the Ford square posts underneath. I'm sure they were Exide batteries.

[meggersdog]

My '96 Escort has that type of battery I got mine from Exhausts Unlimited was a Motorquip battery IIRC .I keep forgetting I own it as it's been on my mother's drive for three years.It's only when I get a tax reminder that I think "Hmm,must get that car back on the road" and it still sits there.