Thread: Deuce Battery Placement
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07-06-2006 11:54 PM #16
....Wayne @ Redneck Street Rods is building me a '32 3 Window & he advised me not to put the battery under the car so I had him put it in the truck like he recommended. He said that sooner or later I'd regret putting it under the car. Like in a rain storm when I had a dead battery as I was crawling around under my car, soaking wet I'd remember what he said! Bill
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07-07-2006 05:08 AM #17
Whoa! I didn't see that one coming! Ha! I'm sure Wayne knows someone that has experienced that one for him to mention it. Wayne may have been the one soaking wet! I remember one Louisville National where it rained hard enough for a guy to drown changing out a battery under the car.Thanks for the reply.
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07-07-2006 05:39 AM #18
Wayne and Billlsbird have a good point.
Even so, the battery in my car is seldom touched and the couple of times I did drop it, one was for battery replacement and the other to change cable (terminal) style.
I like it out of the trunk area when a fuel tank or fuel cell is used within.
A small battery - CCA wise - works ok most times, but every now and then the engine can get fussy and require a bit of cranking.
Since I changed from electric pump to manual I find that leaving the roadster sit (Carter 750 cfm carb) for a week or two can take a bit of cranking to get fuel into the bowl.
Not a problem with an electric pump . . . which I'm going back to....C9
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07-11-2006 06:57 PM #19
I mounted mine just behind the sat on the passenger side.
It makes it clean and easy to run any cables and wires needed. Also drilled a 1 1/2" hole on top the fram and ran all wire through the frame rail and made it very clean.
You can see pics here
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v2...0street%20rod/
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09-06-2006 11:39 AM #20
Located mine in the trunk ..in the storage area ....
John's ride to the cemetery, his beloved Billings OK bus, The Baby Elephant!! Traveling in style!! As his service was starting I couldn't figure out what the music was, heavy on a flute in a jaunty...
John Norton aka johnboy