Build POTM - March, 2014 - Javelina By Pablo Cruise

[PabloCruise]

Picked up a battery tender for the Pig.

Other than that, she sleeps and waits...

I can't wait to run new PS lines and then get the AC working.

After that, stereo install.

 

[scrapdaddy]

Pablo,

I'm a big believer in battery maintainers, I have them on all my equipment and trucks. batteries last so much longer keeping them fully charged. What's left to do to get the AC working?

 

[Ol Yeller]

Derail the thread a second...favorite battery maintainer Pablo, Ron?

 

[scrapdaddy]

Most of mine are Battery Tenders, but I have a Noco Genius mounted in the 55, it takes care of both batteries.

 

[Ming89FJ62]

a sleeping pig with a Battery Tender is a happy pig.

 

[fj55-100]

hive mentality ,i love it

 

[scrapdaddy]

I have a different model.....

 

[Megadoomer]

Nothing i have done to my pig says "genius" on it.

 

[J Mack]

Nothing i have done to my pig says "genius" on it.

Yea me either, if I want to keep my battery charged I just drive it..

 

[fj55-100]

you know go $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ or go home

 

[Ming89FJ62]

Chicago winter and tons of road salt make for a very, very unhappy (and holey) pig

 

[bobm]

Yea me either, if I want to keep my battery charged I just drive it..

hard . That's what it's for.

 

[scrapdaddy]

Nothing i have done to my pig says "genius" on it.

In my case, it's an oxymoron besides I heard the judges this year will be looking at interior bling.

 

[PabloCruise]

Wow, I did not think my post would be that provocative!

I went Battery Tender brand. We have a corp-o-rat account at Batteries Plus at work, so I usually go there first for things like batteries and bulbs. They carry the Noco brand for those little jump-start batteries, so I got the one for the 470 (@J Mack loves that cruiser best).

And yeah, driving them is one way to keep the battery charged. I think anyone who has witnessed the horrors of mag chloride would never want to expose their Pig to that unholy substance...

 

[fj55-100]

damm another category i will lose to the rich . cant we just have a cool section

 

[PabloCruise]

damm another category i will lose to the rich . cant we just have a cool section

100 series S/C powertrain in a Pig?!? You ARE the cool section!

I'm just trying to keep up...

 

[PabloCruise]

Pablo,

What's left to do to get the AC working?

Once I got the AC compressor bracket, and fasteners, and tensioner ironed out, I discovered I need to re-do my PS lines so I can mount fit the compressor in where she is supposed to go:

POTM - March, 2014 - Javelina By Pablo Cruise

 

[scrapdaddy]

Good, so not a lot of tech involved now. The Mrs. will be happy.

 

[LAMBCRUSHER]

Enough clearance between 3FE clutch fan and Piggy radiator! I was thinking we might have to go with an electric fan, but when we had the mounts repositioned to shift the radiator forward, we had adequate clearance. No shroud, but Piggy never runs hot. Granted, I haven't tried to run her up Eisenhower tunnel w/ the AC on and 8 husky men at 80 MPH...

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I still have a lot of reading to do, but how did you guys reposition the radiator mounts to accomplish the fan clutch cleanrance? I think I'm going to be following you down this road...

 

[PabloCruise]

I still have a lot of reading to do, but how did you guys reposition the radiator mounts to accomplish the fan clutch cleanrance? I think I'm going to be following you down this road...

What I did was have the radiator shop remove the mount brackets off the Pig radiator and move them all the way back on the radiator. That shifts the radiator forward in the engine compartment so it clears the 3FE fan.
Make sense?