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- 84 BII "Li'l Samson"
The way I have my battery mounted below the rear bed of my truck it makes for a real PITA to hook-up jumper cables, charge battery or just to have access to 12 volts. Not mentioning hooking up my portable 12v trouble light with alligator clips.
Plus there has been many many times I just needed 12v to test something. Today for instance I wanted to check to see if this spare heater fan still works.
So I ordered the below part from Summit. Summit even upgraded to 2day Air at same cost as ground.
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/SUM-G1430/
Here is where the battery is located below bed. Then you have to lift up one lid that makes the rear floor flat then that opens up to about a 4" sunken area that I have some tools. Then I need to open up the red door to expose battery. Great for low COG, but a pain to get to.
Now here is where I'm thinking of mounting the terminals close to the power box on winch. I'm thinking of that red steel brace you see that runs behind box and to right.
It already has two heavy battery cables coming directly off battery to winch. Even the ground wire goes straight to battery.
Just tap into wires in the box.
The winch is also capable of mounting into rear receiver hitch, if for some odd reason I need terminals in rear.
Any thoughts on this location or like to hear from someone that has them installed.
Plus there has been many many times I just needed 12v to test something. Today for instance I wanted to check to see if this spare heater fan still works.
So I ordered the below part from Summit. Summit even upgraded to 2day Air at same cost as ground.
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/SUM-G1430/
Here is where the battery is located below bed. Then you have to lift up one lid that makes the rear floor flat then that opens up to about a 4" sunken area that I have some tools. Then I need to open up the red door to expose battery. Great for low COG, but a pain to get to.
Now here is where I'm thinking of mounting the terminals close to the power box on winch. I'm thinking of that red steel brace you see that runs behind box and to right.
It already has two heavy battery cables coming directly off battery to winch. Even the ground wire goes straight to battery.
Just tap into wires in the box.
The winch is also capable of mounting into rear receiver hitch, if for some odd reason I need terminals in rear.
Any thoughts on this location or like to hear from someone that has them installed.
