Doug,
Nothing surprises me about these cars. The battery is on an intelligent
charger in the basement, ready to back up the back up battery in my sump
pump. Ordered a new overdrive escution plate for my Healey, and only then
did I find that the DPO had used a switch from a later model and had to make
the hole larger in both the dash and escution plate to get it all together.
I really shouldn't complain. I performed all sorts of indignities on my
original bug eye, not thinking in 1960 of posterity, or what these cars
would become.
Jack
> ----------
> From: doug russell[SMTP:dr-doug@classic.msn.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 11, 1998 1:12 PM
> To: Feldman, Jack (Jack); Feldman, Jack (Jack); mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: Battery Size, Hmm, very interesting.
>
> Comments???
>
> What are you smoking over there????
>
> It should fit if it's a Group 26. I have the single 12v Conversion on 4
> cars.
> Two GTs (1 B - 1 C) and 2 Roadsters (1 B - 1 C) with absolutely no
> problems
> fitting the Group 26 in either model (all with vinyl bins installed).
>
> If there is a difference in Roadster and GT bin sizes, (and maybe there is
>
> cause stranger things have happened) it is too small for me to have
> noticed
> when fitting the group 26 battery. BTW, in one car I have an Interstate
> Group
> 26 but the others all have K-Mart Excide brand (real inexpensive - 600 CCA
> for
> $40 or less) - all have handles (an absolute must). So I would suspect
> that
> you do not have a group 26 size battery or a group 26 battery that, as
> paradoxical as this may sound, is an odd-ball size.
>
> Either way, go out and get another Group 26. Hook up the battery with no
> handle to a float charger and use it as a spare. One more thing Jack, you
>
> should know better than to smoke when working with batteries!!!
>
> Dr. Doug
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net On Behalf Of Feldman, Jack (Jack)
> Sent: Friday, September 11, 1998 10:45 AM
> To: 'mgs@autox.team.net'
> Subject: Battery Size, Hmm, very interesting.
>
> This spring, with two cars in storage, I had to chose which battery I
> would
> use to wake up the C. I chose the one from the BGT because it had a handle
> on it, and someone had removed the handle from the battery that came with
> the C. Yesterday, in getting the BGT started I thought I would use the
> stored battery that originally came with the C, and give the battery I had
> been using a rest.
>
> Now we all know that the sheet metal of the B and the C is the same from
> the windscreen back. Indeed the replacement windscreen that was just
> installed had been stocked as a B replacement.
>
> The opening to the battery compartment on the BGT was too small to take be
> battery that fit into the C! I know it came out of the C as easily as the
> B
> batteries do, but why couldn't I fit it into the BGT? The C battery was
> about an inch wider, but again, it did fit in the C.
>
> Comments?
>
> Jack
>
>
>
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