GEARWRENCH Battery Terminal Spreader and Cleaner - 204D

This is an excellent tool. I read reviews for other similar tools, some cheaper and some more expensive. I have other tools made by Gear Wrench and bought these based both on some reviews and my own experience. Gear Wrench makes good tools. This was no disappointment and as soon as I had it in my hand, I knew it was a good one. It performed as I expected and I highly recommend it.

The media could not be loaded. One of the low rating knocks against these battery terminal expansion pliers is that they won’t fit some of the negative post terminal clamps.That may be true if you try to insert the pliers from the top of the clamp.Battery terminal clamps are tapered from the top to the bottom with the wider side going towards the bottom of the battery post to make them easier to attach.See my video to understand this concept.You will see that these expansion pliers are indeed too large to fit from the top of the battery clamp. If you flip the clamp over, the tip of these pliers should fit enough to expand the clamp.If you have a situation where they still won’t fit, remove or loosen the terminal clamp bolt and use a wide blade slot screwdriver to open the clamp where the bolt was enough to remove the clamp or use a battery clamp puller if you have one and remove the clamp once you loosen the hold down bolt.Then use these pliers from the wider bottom side to fully expand the clamp.These pliers have ridges intended to clean a terminal clamp. I still use a tapered wire battery terminal clamp brush myself because I think it does a better job of terminal cleaning.I’ve used these pliers 8 times since I got them 2 days ago on 2 generator batteries (4 total clamps) and two ZTR mower batteries (4 total clamps) and on all of those smaller group 26R batteries, these pliers fit when I flipped the clamp over and put the pliers into the wider opening on the bottom of the clamp.Hope this helps!

My Toyota Highlander was riding happily down the road when all of a sudden, the power steering went out and then came back a minute later. 5 minutes later, into a turn, the power steering went out again and all of the electronics displays flickered, went out, and came back on fresh as if the car computer had rebooted...and it was in fact a reboot because all of the settings like radio favorites and MPG calculations went all back to factory defaults.Because the car engine kept running, I thought it had to be battery or battery connection related. Drove the car home, parked it, turned off the engine and popped the hood and saw some corrosion on the battery positive terminal. I did some surface cleaning and went to the turn the car back on and nothing. No crank, no lights, dead. Then I thought "uh oh". Took the terminals off the battery posts and scrubbed them down, reseat them, and then pushed the start button in the car. I got electronics, but no starter cranking. "uh oh". Two things I was thinking...no juice was getting to the starter from the battery or battery was just done. The easier thing to troubleshoot was the battery connections. The Highlander uses marine terminal connectors which is great because, of all places, I was able to get a pair for 4 bucks from Kmart. The funny thing is that the wire harness that Toyota uses didn't fit onto the "Universal" positive marine terminal. It does fit on the negative "Universal" terminal HOWEVER the negative terminal doesn't fit over the Positive battery post (the Positive battery post on my Interstate batter is bigger than the Negative battery post). That's where this puppy came into the picture. I was able to spread the Negative terminal easily so that it slipped snuggly over the Positive battery post and lo and behold, after connecting everything back up, life was injected back into the Highlander. $4 battery terminal + $20 battery terminal spreader compared with $100 towing fee to the mechanic + $100 just to see what's up + $$$$$???? whatever cockamamie story they would make up to make me replace the whole electrical system and starter and alternator and battery......yeah this tool was worth the money.

A great product to open up battery terminals before installation. Helps for a better job to ensure your battery terminals are fully seated.

Very good quality unlike the tool with the red handles and silver color metal also sold on Amazon

These were a lifesaver, I screwed up and accidently hit one of my battery terminals with a hammer and bent the heck out of it. Tried everything I could think of, then ordered these and did the trick!

Easy to use. well worth it. its too dangerous to try and spread a battery clamp otherwise. this is safe, easy to use, very effective.

sturdy

La pinza resulta adecuada para lo que esta diseñada, es mucho mejor usar esta pinza y no herramientas inadecuadas para el trabajo

Very good quality built, strong metal. The only recommendation I have is regarding the sharpness of the teeth on the head, the current ones are not as sharp. Otherwise great tool to have very versatile

it is an effective tool and has good quality, higly recommended base on price point.

Just what I needed to spread battery terminals without damaging them.

The item I got was nothing like what was advertised it was the same style and quality as the $20 tools