Went up to Caruthers lake in Montana. Tested out sliders and stock skids.
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Installed an Odyssey 31M dual post.
I'm hoping it will handle an ARB Elements for short 1-2 day trips.
I'll be augmenting it with a solar panel for longer trips next Spring.
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is this the biggest battery that will fit in the stock location without modification? i noticed people using Odyssey 34R-PC1500t
I'm not sure if something bigger is available. I know there's not much more room between the radiator hose and the fender for anything bigger - maybe 1/4".
Height wise you could go about 3/4" taller if you had an aftermarket battery tie down.
Width, there's about an inch of space available.
For me, a group 31 is as big as I would try to go. If i wanted something larger, I'd start looking into a dual battery setup.
I plan to eventually go to a dual setup using the 31 as a house battery and something smaller/lighter as my secondary.
I'll go that route after deleting my secondary air pump system.
There's a 90* bend in the positive cable: I had to bend that straight.
I also had to drill a hole in the fender to relocate the ground cable that bolts to the fender with a 10mm bolt.
I could have solved both problems by extending the cables. The reason I went the way I did is because I'm in the process of building custom battery cables.
When I had my jeep I fabbed battery cables out of welding wire. I'm doing the same for the GX. I'm using 0 and 5 gauge cable and military style bolt connectors. I'll heat shrink and crimp all connevtions. They'll be a bit more efficient but mostly more flexible snd durable than the factory cables.
You can 100% safely run the batttery the way I have it now though.
Oh! I need this!