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Battery hold down bracket

Old 06-04-13, 12:13 AM
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TX Battery hold down bracket

Does anyone know or have fabbed a battery hold down when relocating the battery into one of the storage bins? If you have something like that put up some pics, i'd like to get ideas. Thanks
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regular battery needs to be vented but a spiral cell such ads an Optima doesn't need to be.
I got lucky and grabbed a Made to fit Optima cage from Ebay.
If you are using the Optima Red then This one here is the cheapest I just found:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Optima-34-78-Battery-box-tray-hold-down-custom-offroad-Stainless-Steel-/300628770128?pt=Motors_Car_Truck_Parts_Accessories&hash=item45fedefd50&vxp=mtr
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Im using an optima. Any pics of how you mounted it in the storage bin? Thanks
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Rural king sells battery boxes.
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anyone got images of how they installed the box in the bins? did you drill the floor for the bolts or use any other method?
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I got an Fc,but yes I did just drill through the floor and bolted it in.
You can get grommets(what I did) and drill holes for the cables and feed them through the floor too.(or just run the cable inside under the carpet,and then out of the firewall to whatever)
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