my repro tar top lucas battery lasted 5 years! ya musta gotta bad one.
chuck
2:12am est. just got in from garage. doing the late night thing again.
man-o-man it's 21 degrees out there this morning! .............c. :)
----- Original Message -----
From Mike Maclean <macleans at earthlink.net>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 6:17 AM
Subject: Repro Lucas Battery
> I just had to replace a new reproduction Lucas tar-top battery that had
> only been in the car since I got the engine running after rebuild. This
> car has not even been on the road yet! I had been charging it with a
> Surecharge float charger and getting corrosion on the terminals
> from long term float charging. It cooked off the battery acid below the
> plates on one cell and the rest were low. I have only run the engine
> for a gallon or two of gas so far, so I don't think the charging circuit
> in the car did this. The local Pep Boys put it on a battery analyzer
> and gave me a thumbs down on it. Replaced it with a Group 24 - 72 month
> battery and the car is back to normal. The old battery was working fine
> one day and acted like it was completely dead the next. Someone warned
> me about the repro batteries being advertised in the usual catalogs.
> For what I paid for the Lucas battery, I could have bought 2 1/2
> batteries like the one I put in tonight. Someone kick me.
> Mike MacLean-60 Sprite
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