Battery Harness Replacement Question

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My positive and negative battery cables have some cracking in the insulation and corrosion from lack of maintenance from the previous owner and from what I can tell you have to replace the full battery harness to fix this issue. Anyone have experience with this on their SHO and can confirm if this is accurate?

I found this harness while looking around a while back, DA8Z-14300-B, which should be the right part and only costs $200 :rolleyes: . Since I have to replace my steering rack soon, I thought about possibly doing this at the same time as it would give me access to the bottom rear of the engine where I believe part of the harness is routed but not 100% on that because I can't see down the back side from above too well.

Would love to not do the full harness because it doesn't look fun, but ford seems to have decided to make the battery cables part of an integral harness you have to fully replace to just fix the last 6-8 inches.
 

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Yes, if you have damaged cables, you should replace the entire assembly. You could try to replace the bad cable, but I wouldn't recommend it. If just the battery terminals are bad you can replace them individually. Also, the fuse block with the positive terminal is available separately.

Fuse block and positive terminal


or Chinese copy


Both of these terminals are made by the OEM supplier to Ford.
Positive terminal


Negative terminal

 
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