moving the battery

[Rhett]

This is another one of those moving the batt questions on a 91-94 Explorer.

Moving the battery to the driver's side would add approx 50-75 lbs to that side. Would this weight over the long term adversely affect the springs on that side?

 

[jimbo74]

probably... the stock X already leans to the left... becuase there is alwaya a driver and not always passengers, and the gas tank is over there, when it is full it has 20 gals of fuel... a gallon is like 7.5 #s...that is 150 lbs of gas......

 

[BoatsRcool]

whoa ithink my batterys alot less than 50-75 lbs.

 

[Rhett]

Well, 1995+ Explorers have their fuel tank and battery on the driver's side...

I am thinking of doing the same to mine.; i.e. moving batt to the driver's side like in a 95+ and putting the air filter up behind the passenger side headlight like in 95+. That way I can get cooler air in there more easily. The 91-94 setup is so inefficient...

 

[Rhett]

Heck I don't know how much it weighs!!

I was just guessing...

ok how about this. It weighs 20 to 80 lbs. That's a big enough range to satisfy all. I lift weights and I know how heavy a 60 lb dumbbell is, and my battery is about that heavy.

I just know it's a heavy sob. It's a Duralast Gold, and those are much bigger and heavier batteries than these little Optima Yellows and Reds and the Motorcraft batt's a lot of people run around with.

 

[leenjen]

holy S$#%, can you take a picture of that 80lb. battery J/K