How to Clean Battery 2006-10 Ford Explorer

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In this video, we're going to show you how to clean off a dirty battery. Sometimes you get blue corrosion build up on the terminals and around the top of the case. Always be sure to wear gloves when performing this procedure, because this battery corrosion can be acidic.

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Here are the items you'll need for this repair: 8-12mm socket and ratchet, wire brush, and gloves.

Our battery has some light corrosion on the terminals and along the top of the case. Now there are several types of solvents or things you can mix up at home to clean these terminals and get this corrosion off here. I like to use hot water.

Can see almost instantly it's removing the bulk of the corrosion from the top of our battery. Anything that's left, we'll get with a small wire or a small nylon brush. If you really want to get a thorough clean on these terminals. Our ground comes off with a 13 millimeter; yours may also be an 8mm, because it looks like this bolt's been replaced on ours.

The OEM terminal here on the positive side uses an 8 millimeter. We'll loosen those two terminals and remove them, so we can get all the way around and clean off the posts and case of our battery. While we have the terminals off, we can get up in there with a small end of the brush as well.

Clean out the battery clamps. Ours aren't corroded too bad, but you can use this same process. Once you're done cleaning your terminals, we'll reinstall them onto the battery. Again, this is a replacement connection that we have here, so this is going to use a 13 millimeter bolt for this particular one. We'll use a 13 millimeter wrench, whereas the OEM ones and the one on our positive terminal is going to use an 8 millimeter.

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