BATTERIES:
We chose Univeral
Battery UB121100. Some people in the yahoo group were using them, and I got a good deal on them - $110/each. They're 110ah AGM batteries, 12v each. They're huge - like 67 lbs each! The brought them on a semi thinking we were a business, but when they saw we were a house back in the woods, they took them back to the shipping location. So Bob & Dad had to go there and load all the batteries by hand into Dad's truck! Ugh...
Battery UB121100. Some people in the yahoo group were using them, and I got a good deal on them - $110/each. They're 110ah AGM batteries, 12v each. They're huge - like 67 lbs each! The brought them on a semi thinking we were a business, but when they saw we were a house back in the woods, they took them back to the shipping location. So Bob & Dad had to go there and load all the batteries by hand into Dad's truck! Ugh...BATTERY BOX
The existing boxes were not in the best shape, but mostly just needed cleaning up:
...But the main problem was that there was no way we'd fit 26 of these monster batteries in there. The original "hawker" batteries were way smaller.
So Dad cleaned the boxes up, and built another battery frame/box that would attach over the rear axle & differential, and go all the way back to the very rear of the frame - Here it is on saw horses:
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