battery fitment
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CreeperSleeper said:Where are you located? I'll mail you a measuring tape...
you are hilarious!
i am at work, truck is not here, wanted to order it today so it is here by the end of the week along with my hellroaring dual battery set up...
anyone want to be cool and help me out?
Did you measure
I've heard Optima batteries are the best but looks like the Odyssey trumps the Optima in the comparison. Of course Odyssey did the comparison so I guess you have to figure in the bias. Anyway have experience with both? I need to replace my old DieHard battery (it is HUGE) and my problem is fitting a smaller battery in the large tray I have and keeping it from moving. I've been looking at the Optima yellow top but now I'm wondering if the Odyssey wouldn't be better...
I've heard Optima batteries are the best but looks like the Odyssey trumps the Optima in the comparison. Of course Odyssey did the comparison so I guess you have to figure in the bias. Anyway have experience with both? I need to replace my old DieHard battery (it is HUGE) and my problem is fitting a smaller battery in the large tray I have and keeping it from moving. I've been looking at the Optima yellow top but now I'm wondering if the Odyssey wouldn't be better...
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i had a yellow top... i have a red top now. you want as many cold cranking amps as possible. bottom line. that is what i want anyway... that is what lead me to oddessy.
my undies are riding high, quite the wedgie... must, get, measurements (please)
my undies are riding high, quite the wedgie... must, get, measurements (please)
Peepers, I just got done sticking an Odyssey PC1700MJT into my 1993. It fit fine, after I stuck in about an inch and a half of matting in the bottom of the battery tray, along with a half-inch in the rear of the tray. I also had to fabricate a new retainer bar, from aluminum stock, because the factory one was not wide enough to go around the 1700. The stock hold-downs worked fine.
Odyssey batteries are great, but don't quite fit the Land Cruiser. I think you're going to have issues with that 2150 fitting the cabling, more than anything else. I had to get some marine terminals, and re-do the ends on my cables, in order to make them work. With the terminals so "deep" into the battery, as the 2150 picture shows, I think you're going to have issues making things fit, properly.
And, with the width of those batteries, you have to put enough "spacer" in the bottom of the tray in order to get the battery to sit level, I suspect you're also going to have clearance issues with the terminal lugs and the hood. I'm not sure you should go with the 2150 unless you can do some fitting. I'd hate to see someone get stuck with a battery that doesn't quite work, and be unable to return it.
I know that the 1700 barely fits, with some fiddling and work-arounds, at least in my 1993. Good luck...
Odyssey batteries are great, but don't quite fit the Land Cruiser. I think you're going to have issues with that 2150 fitting the cabling, more than anything else. I had to get some marine terminals, and re-do the ends on my cables, in order to make them work. With the terminals so "deep" into the battery, as the 2150 picture shows, I think you're going to have issues making things fit, properly.
And, with the width of those batteries, you have to put enough "spacer" in the bottom of the tray in order to get the battery to sit level, I suspect you're also going to have clearance issues with the terminal lugs and the hood. I'm not sure you should go with the 2150 unless you can do some fitting. I'd hate to see someone get stuck with a battery that doesn't quite work, and be unable to return it.
I know that the 1700 barely fits, with some fiddling and work-arounds, at least in my 1993. Good luck...
I think Odyssey will definitely be better, the AGM just seems to better all around than gel cell.corsair23 said:I've heard Optima batteries are the best but looks like the Odyssey trumps the Optima in the comparison. Of course Odyssey did the comparison so I guess you have to figure in the bias. Anyway have experience with both? I need to replace my old DieHard battery (it is HUGE) and my problem is fitting a smaller battery in the large tray I have and keeping it from moving. I've been looking at the Optima yellow top but now I'm wondering if the Odyssey wouldn't be better...