Thread: Odd Place for the Battery

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Consider that most all "big rigs" have their batteries mounted in a box on the frame under the truck. There are boxes on the market that have a screw type lift system in them. I'd find a box that was indirectly vented. That fender well has plenty of room for this sort of thing. Check out four wheeling and off road aftermarket folks, for possibilities; search "Battery Box". Use a couple of heavy duty high amperage terminal blocks mounted in the engine compartment for easy access to the leads, and just run the cables directly to them from the box. Just "brainbustin' " here.

well, newer chrysler Concorde's and LHS's got them mounted there, passanger fender, and there's a connection box for jump starting under the hood, for the positive side, ground, just goes to ground. perhaps looking for a junked concorde or LHS, could mod it's rear opening box and the connection box..

The only thing I could see being a problem is if you shed a tire tread it could wipe out the battery. Doesn't happen very often however. Be sure you seal it up tight and add a rock deflector.