How do you hook up jumper cables to a dead battery?
How do you hook up jumper cables to a dead battery? To hook up jumper cables, park the donor vehicle next to the vehicle with the dead battery, turn both vehicles off, and set the parking brakes. Next, clamp one of the red clamps onto the positive terminal of the dead battery, then secure the other red clamp to the positive terminal on the donor battery. When do you hook up a boat battery? One routine job is removing the boat's batteries for the winter and re-installing them in the spring. Hooking up a boat battery is not a whole...