I also read somewhere that allowing a battery to constantly move around can
damage and shorten it's life.
One thing you could do until you sort out the hold down is to use either
one of those non-skid mats that are made for drawer liners of work
surfaces. I found a roll of thin rubber matting that has a cloth layer
sandwiched in it that works great too. Found it at Orchard Supply Hardware
Gerard
At 9:22 AM -0400 8/24/01, KGROWLER@aol.com wrote:
>DLancer7676@cs.com wrote:
>
>
><<<Re: Tying down the battery
>
>In a message dated 8/23/2001 10:00:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
>Ajhsys@aol.com writes:
>
>
>> I bought J-bolts from an Exide battery display at K-mart. I made a cross
>> piece out of angle iron
>
>I thought about this, but the way the battery is situated in the 1500, with
>the posts to the front, the angle IRON comes awfully clost to the posts, and
>I am afraid the angle iron will short circuit the battery. Be nice if they
>made a non-conductive angle that could be used in place of the iron. I have
>no battery tie-down presently either.
>
>- --David C.>>>
>
>Depends on the battery. The correct battery will have the posts to the rear.
>The first replacement battery I put in, in 1981, was reversed so I cut
>sections out of the hold down bar on each side of the top flat so the
>remaining part was not long enough to contact both terminals simultaneously.
>(The NAPA batteries I have been using for the past few years do have the
>correct post orientation.)
>
>But more important is to make the point that the battery hold down is a
>necessity. I have gone for some time without one but have paid the price.
>True, the battery is boxed in and doesn't have much of anywhere to go -
>BUT... The first problem I had was when I noticed last year that the ground
>cable fitting that's bolted to the firewall had cracked apart. The limited
>space in which the battery could slide back and forth was enough to
>accomplish that. The more major occurence was in July just as we got to St.
>Paul for MG 2001. 2 miles from our destination hotel after a 400 mile trip,
>my clutch went out. The cause? The red plastic clutch line. The clutch line
>passes through the battery shelf right next to the battery. The grommet was
>stretched over and the line wore on the metal shelf from the battery pushing
>on it when it slid that way. Thankfully, Quality Coaches in Minneapolis had a
>clutch line in stock (and even dropped it off at the hotel - Thanks Val!) and
>we were able to do a parking lot repair the next morning without having to
>wait over the July 4 holiday for one to be shipped from Kansas or California.
>
>Kim Tonry
>Downers Grove, Illinois, USA
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