Subject: Re: garden tractor battery
Author: Ian Adkins
Date: Jul 18, 2001, 10:40 AM
Post ID: 1707539252
Andy,
Very cool idea. I was just transferring the battery from one bike to another
and had the opportunity to pull the caps and check the electrolyte levels. I
was looking at the caps and see that it could be very easy to run vent tubes
out of those caps. Thanks for the idea.
....Ian
-----Original Message-----
From: andy hill <gun-@lynnet.com>
To: Loopfram-@topica.com <Loopfram-@topica.com>
Date: July 18, 2001 12:52 PM
Subject: Re: garden tractor battery
| ian- i know that this is prolly anal, but what i did is this: after noticing the really bad/loose paint/corrosion, etc. inside the sidecovers, all over the frame, batt. tray, etc. when i first got this |
| i took a drillbit, & bored out the 'lil flat vents in the batt. caps to |
| 'em round. then, scrounging up an elbow & a tee fitting [really small vaccuum fittings ripped out of a long-ago g.m. truck], i put the tee in 1 cap & the elbow in the other, put a short hose from 1 cap to the next, then a long hose from the remaining tee fitting to the air [down by the rear tire]. haven't seen any problems yet. 1 thing- blow thru the hoses to make sure the drill didn't push a pile of plastic bits into a pile in the caps, blocking off the breathing ability of the caps. whew! didn't take that long to do it!! andy |