Re: Boot located battery requirements

[Rick White]

Title: RE: Boot located battery requirements

Mark. My mate Wojee had a FJ 20 powered 1600 with the battery in the boot, if I remember right he just got the standard battery box, plastic one. Drilled a couple of holes in the sides that were big enough to house the cables with nice grommets  around them, this sealed it. then he drilled another hole in which he just udes another grommet and a small piece oh hose which he just vented through the floor of the boot. To seal the top of the box he bought a tube of silicon, spread that all over the inside lip of the lid while it was apart and let it dry overnight. He then just used the box like you normally do, just used the ratchety thing to hold the lid tight. Later. Rick White.  ----- Original Message ----- From: Ross Goddard To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 12:15 PM Subject: RE: Boot located battery requirements I think they will want the battery sealed off from the boot (and therefore the cabin) and vented to the atmosphere outside. Sounds easy, but will be harder to do in practice. I have one of those plastic battery boxes which will be very hard to seal because the lid has raised bit to clear the cables. May have to make a new lid and run the cables through the side of the box? Ross G ---------- From:   Robert Charles Scealy Reply To:       [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:   Tuesday, December 17, 2002 14:48 PM To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:        Re: Boot located battery requirements Hi Mark, Check out boating and marine places, they sell pretty good boxes for cheap. The use of the words "seal" and "vent" seem to fight each other, how do they want you to do that? Some big grommots could be used to seal the cables I suppose. On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to "seal and secure and vent" my boot mounted battery to meet roadworthy > standards. The motor registry said I'd actually need to seal the battery box - "use foam or > something" he said. This is ridicluous in my view - how the hell can one seal a battery box like > that with +ive & -ive cables from it? A Battery shop told me they can't get sealed boxes and > suggested buying a maintenance-free, sealed battery - pity my old battery is just fine - is this > my only option? > > --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List   Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to  [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send  submissions to  [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/membersozdat@datascribe.com.au/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/membersozdat@datascribe.com.au/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- --membersozdat------------------------------------------------------- OZDAT Mailing List Please Note:- Send (un)subscribe requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No unauthorised redistribution of this email http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/index.htm http://www.ozdat.com/ozdatonline/listindex.html http://www.mail-archive.com/membersozdat@datascribe.com.au/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------