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Message started by hawk41 on 06/26/16 at 08:47:00

Title: Battery Removal
Post by hawk41 on 06/26/16 at 08:47:00

For those of us with marginal mechanical skills, is there a trick to getting the battery to slide out of the holder. Does the positive connection need to be disconnected before removal and, if so, how do I get access to it! Couldn't find any instructions in the manual. Thanks! :(

Title: Re: Battery Removal
Post by thumperclone on 06/26/16 at 09:20:01

disconnect the neg(-) wire first then slide the battery so you can get to the the pos(+)
if you try the pos first you may short out to the frame

Title: Re: Battery Removal
Post by hawk41 on 06/26/16 at 09:34:48

There-in lies the problem! After disconnecting the negative post the battery will only slide out about 3 inches and no further. Any ideas as to why it is stuck?

Title: Re: Battery Removal
Post by verslagen1 on 06/26/16 at 10:01:47

did you remove the positive lead once you got 3" out?

Title: Re: Battery Removal
Post by hawk41 on 06/26/16 at 10:06:54

Once again it was the nut behind the wheel! I had just disconnected the wrong post, thinking it was the neg post! Wrong! It was the pos post, so once I figured that out and finally disconnected the neg post it slid out like it should. Oh well! Live and learn, right! :o

Title: Re: Battery Removal
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 06/26/16 at 10:54:37

Live and learn, right!

Well, as long as the mistake isn't fatal..

Title: Re: Battery Removal
Post by Struch on 06/26/16 at 11:09:23

Yes can spark get on fire and beern hall thing down ;D
Right JOG ;D

Title: Re: Battery Removal
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 06/26/16 at 11:09:34

Live and learn, right!

Well, as long as the mistake isn't fatal..

Title: Re: Battery Removal
Post by batman on 06/26/16 at 15:08:53

My problem was always reinstalling ,could never get the nut to stay in place so the bolt would line up and I could tighten the cables. I found that if I cut a small piece of plastic tube off the battery over flow line and slipped it under the nut,it would stay in place and make it very easy.

Title: Re: Battery Removal
Post by KennyG on 06/26/16 at 16:12:42

I use a small piece of very thin sticky back foam to hold the nut in place.

I learned that from my friend AJ at The Chop Shop in Keller Texas.

I have spent a lot of my time on the floor searching, and cursing those little square nuts.

Kenny G

Title: Re: Battery Removal
Post by hotprops on 06/26/16 at 16:39:00

i use a wood chopstick filed to look like a screwdriver

Title: Re: Battery Removal
Post by RaleighGuy on 06/28/16 at 08:30:19

456B604D7C6F7D660E0 wrote:

I have spent a lot of my time on the floor searching, and cursing those little square nuts.

Kenny G

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;D Just two days ago, I was messing with installing some simple accent lights and when attempting to put the battery back in, I'd spent a few minutes searching the floor of my garage looking for the nut to hold the negative terminal wire in place. I need to try one of these tricks to "cement" it into place.

Title: Re: Battery Removal
Post by Boofer on 06/28/16 at 21:26:30

My batteries nuts are caged in loosely. I unhook the negative then the positive using a screwdriver straight down through the frame. I don't slide it at all until it is completely unhooked.

Title: Re: Battery Removal
Post by sauvage on 06/29/16 at 03:56:08

Always good to wrap some rag around the neg lead after removal as a precaution against shorting.

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