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Another vote for Interstate. This deep cycle battery has top post connections for the marine battery leads for my Warn 8274-50. I use the same battery in my FJ40s, my '86 FJ60, and my Lance cabover camper.

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Another vote for Northstars, I have two North Star 34M AGM batteries (stock parallel fitting) in my BJ60, and after 4 1/2 years they still test (with a pulsetech 490PT+) at virtually full capacity. Although they are not post indexed for left or right application, the M (marine) battery has brass SAE posts, and also midline stud terminals. This allowed me to remove the old stretched lead Toyota battery post connectors off the stock cables, and replace them with heavy crimp on eyelets for very positive mounting on the studs. This leaves the SAE posts free for additional connections or jump starting less fortunate vehicles....
North Star seems to be the only battery on the market made with pure (non-recycled) lead and is made in the USA, not offshore. Super quality, but at a price.
 
I'm a cheap battery guy, because all batteries will fail in time. It isn't magic.

The East Penn (Duracell brand) from Batteriesplus is a very good battery and not too much $$-Roughly $125

The Costco group 27s are a good choice too, roughly $100.

The very best thing to do, it keep the batteries always on a tender when not in use. The BatteryMinder tenders are great. And as an example, I just had a Costco group 27 go bad. It was 7 years old-build date 2/2012. Not too shabby. But this is typical service if you use a tender of some type, and periodically top off the cells with distilled water.

I have a lot of batteries in service-All my trucks have 2, and my wife's car has another. All are on the tender every day. The key to long battery life is the constant charge of a tender.

I've tried some of the more expensive AGM batteries and did not get enough extra service, to justify twice the price.
 
I'm a cheap battery guy, because all batteries will fail in time. It isn't magic.

The East Penn (Duracell brand) from Batteriesplus is a very good battery and not too much $$-Roughly $125

The Costco group 27s are a good choice too, roughly $100.

The very best thing to do, it keep the batteries always on a tender when not in use. The BatteryMinder tenders are great. And as an example, I just had a Costco group 27 go bad. It was 7 years old-build date 2/2012. Not too shabby. But this is typical service if you use a tender of some type, and periodically top off the cells with distilled water.

I have a lot of batteries in service-All my trucks have 2, and my wife's car has another. All are on the tender every day. The key to long battery life is the constant charge of a tender.

I've tried some of the more expensive AGM batteries and did not get enough extra service, to justify twice the price.
Thx, Which BatteryMinder Tender do you recommend?
 
I've had great luck myself with Interstate batteries. And the fact that you can get them at Costco for a good price makes it a win-win for me.
Lately Costco doesn’t carry any battery more than 25 years old so they have to cross reference and cross reference and that they had higher cranking amps but no longevity
 
Thx, Which BatteryMinder Tender do you recommend?

BattertMinder Model 2012


I have it hooked up to charge all of my trucks at once. It does an amazing job. If it ever dies, I'm getting the 8 amp output version.
 
My 99 honda 400ex 4wheeler came with a yuasa battery too @OSS lasted 10 years with sitting on and off expensive little joker but it lasted
 

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