Yep, it's been a while since I've posted an update on the dual batts. I've been making progress in small increments and finally have "enough" to provide a status report. But I'm not done yet...


Here's the battery box in it's almost-finished state. I coated it with a spray-on undercoating, drilled some holes for the cables (5 on the front side, 2 on the rear) and installed a 150 amp breaker for the starting battery...




Since I had some undercoating left in the can, I decided to clean up the stock battery tray, where the Noco isolator and the winch's power interrupt solenoid will be installed...




Here are some "thumbs" of the mounting bracket for the isolator and solenoid (click on them to see the full-size photos)...




And here's the mount with the isolator and solenoid installed...




The cables I'm using are quite beefy and heavy. So I opted to run them through non-metallic flex conduit to protect them while mounted beneath the body...




Some thumbs of the cables mounted on the "belly of the beast"... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/evil.gif" alt="" />

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A pic of the batteries in the box... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" /> Also, I used some expanding foam sealant for landscape-applications to seal the gaps between the box and the body. You can see the excess that expanded through the edges (black blobs). I will clean up the excess once I'm ready to button it all up...

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The isolator/solenoid assembly mounted in position, with cables attached...

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And the lid I made for the battery box: I made it using 1/2" plywood and the "repurposed" hinges from the original lid that covered the "jack well"...

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I have hooked up the batteries and have power to the vehicle. However, I still can't get the starter to function (same problem I had prior to starting this project). I'm going through the wiring on the passenger-side floor board because my Sporty had a leak in the heater core prior to my buying it. And this is how one of the previous owners decided to "fix" the corrosion in the cable connectors. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/angry.gif" alt="" />

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So... I'm going through and soldering all of the twist-n-tape splices and checking the non-spliced connections for corrosion. This is a very tedious process, to say the least. And I suspect I'll still be busting out the multimeter to locate the bug in the starting circuit... after I'm done cleaning up the bird's nest... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/baby.gif" alt="" />

More to follow... soon?!? <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/zombie.gif" alt="" />

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