Don't waste your time cleaning the bus bars. Buy your new ones that are nickel coated that will prevent corrosions. If you need if for one battery or for many let me known $35 for a set of 26 Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.
I don't know ... depending on the price and how I felt about my hourly rate that day (plus not having a nickel-plate bath in my basement), I could consider a possible case to be made. -Chap
Does anyone have data/proof about how long their buss bar "cleaning" lasts? I thought sone folkssome folks had bad luck Also, when it comes to gen 1 Prius, the glue etc on the buss bars is not fun to remove. Latly, when Toyota pits Ina pack the don't suggest cleaning. They replace with new.
The corrosion definitely comes back. I don't have an exact number but that is something I would like to try out as a test to show people. Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.
Well, I sell them for $35 a set. The nickel helps with the corrosion coming back. Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.
If using these to replace corrodes ones you would need to replace the nuts & clean the terminals too anyway. Since Toyota supplies new bus bars with their new packs, there is not a large market for these without the corresponding nuts.
Thank you, I will be looking into that to add that one. When I was rebuilding batteries it was a pain in the butt to clean them. This is why I have thease for sale. But I agree with you 100%. Posted via the PriusChat mobile app.
Then there's the part I don't understand. In my opinion, and my opinion is only due to being in the wire biter field for 33 years: The true problem is not the corrosion on the busbars. The corrosion only happens on the surface area that is exposed, not on the surface that is compressed between the fastener and the terminal base. As long as the area that is making contact with the terminal base is clean, and fasteners are correctly torqued there should be no issue with resistance of the connection. ESPECIALLY if someone uses something like the NO-OX compound on the bars. The true problem lies in the sensor wire harness. This is where the corrosion is going to get you. How many of these get broken/cracked due to the average joe pulling busbars out to clean them or replace them. How many actually clean the sensor tabs and crimp area? How many get broken or compromised? Nickel plated busbars are just a "look pretty" addition. I seriously question whether they do anything for actual connection properties. Nickel has lower conductive properties than copper. I can chrome plate a battery case to make it pretty, but that doesn't mean it's going to work better. Your money is better spent just ordering a new harness from Toyota. Again, just my opinion.
In dry climate states likes Arizona the corrosion is actually on the inside bus bar, it's not seen until you remove them. But I'm also thinking the same about the rookies will do more harm than good by taking them out and cleaning them.
Buy nickel plated busbars for $35 a set, or buy an entire new "wire frame #2" harness from Toyota for $60? Busbars by themselves will not correct corrosion issues on the sensor tabs. Nor will it correct corrosion issues on the plug that inserts into the ecu. The plug and sensor terminals are the root cause of 100x more problems than busbars.
