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Comment by Doug Meloan on April 12, 2014 at 12:04am

Photos of 1963 Cadillac battery and battery hold down bracket.  As you can see from Jason's photos of the 1964 battery hold down bracket the 1963 is different.  Date code on this battery is 3DT (April 1963) as my car was built in May 1963.

Comment by Jason Edge on August 28, 2013 at 7:36am

Battery is of course from Restoration Battery (www.restorationbattery.com) listed on our parts supplier page - www.parts.6364cadillac.com 

Comment by Jason Edge on August 27, 2013 at 10:35pm

I'll spill the beans on my other source (you might be surprised what I ended up using) in the next newsletter.

 

Comment by Jason Edge on August 27, 2013 at 10:34pm

Jimmy, This was a quick relatively easy upgraded. There is a place called Lectric Limited listed in our parts supplier page that was highly recommended and got no where with the clueless lady on the phone this Saturday (...are they really known for making custom cables..I must have had the wrong company on the horn.....), but was able to match something within a 1/2" of specs for both negative and positive cable. Only thing is I had to paint/dye the positive alternator lead black (it was brown) and I just went through the process tonight of adding that short braided ground strap from bottom of negative able to the firewall where it mounts via the 3/8" hex head screw to the radiator support.  I had to pry the tangs apart at the bottom of the negative cable and attached negative braid strap I had removed from an original cable and cleaned up. It turned out really nice.

Comment by Jason Edge on August 27, 2013 at 6:45pm

I just installed new spring-ring terminal cables and had the battery out and cleaned everything up and wanted to get some new pictures in. These look so much better than the later model bolt terminal cables and are really heavy duty! I found a great source the correct length and my write something up regarding these in the September Newsletter.

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