How to Install a Golf Cart Battery
By Larry Parr
Unlike the batteries in your car or truck, golf cart batteries are not recharged as you drive. This constant discharging of the batteries takes its toll on the life of each golf cart battery. Therefore, it is important that you understand how to replace golf cart batteries after the old ones have died. Please note that the vast majority of golf carts use multiple batteries.
Instructions
Difficulty: Easy
Locate the battery compartment on your golf cart. The compartment is at the front of most carts, but some carts put the batteries in the back. The lid of the battery compartment should either pop off, or it will be hinged.
Note how the batteries are sitting in the battery compartment; you will want to place the new batteries in the compartment in the same configuration, especially with regards to the alignment of the positive (+) battery post.
Loosen the bolts holding the wires to the posts of your batteries. Note that a red wire is attached to the positive (+) post of each battery. Remove the wires from the old batteries and, wearing your gloves, lift the old batteries out of the compartment and set them aside.
Sand the battery connectors with your 100-grit paper to remove any corrosion and make them shiny. Coat each connector with a small amount of Vaseline to prevent future corrosion.
Place the new batteries in the compartment in the same configuration as the batteries that you removed. Place the wires on the new batteries, making certain that the red wires are connected to the positive (+) post of each battery and that all black wires are connected to the negative (-) posts. Tighten each connector with your crescent wrench, being careful not to over-tighten.
Close the battery compartment.
Tips & Warnings
It is essential that the new batteries be installed with the positive (+) posts facing the same direction as they were with the old batteries.
Red wires must be connected only to the positive (+) posts and black wires to the negative (-) posts.
It is essential that the new batteries be installed with the positive (+) posts facing the same direction as they were with the old batteries.
Red wires must be connected only to the positive (+) posts and black wires to the negative (-) posts.
About The Author
Larry Parr has been a full-time professional freelance writer for more than 30 years. For 25 years he wrote cartoons for TV, everything from SMURFS to SPIDER-MAN.
