Coach Batteries

[garyde]

I just purchased four new lifeline batteries, http://www.lifelinebatteries.com/rvd...ebatteries.php

These are made available to POG members at a discount. Now the next step is to get the old ones out of the belly of the beast and the new ones in.
These are for the Coach itself. Next year, new glass mat for the Chasis.

[Jon Wehrenberg]

Gary,

Take pictures of what you have to do to get them out of there. That would make a good article and would encourage folks to really take care of their batteries so they don't have to go through the changeover.

[truk4u]

Gary,

It's great that you bought from Lifeline and like Jon said, we need to see the pictures, I understand it's a Liberty Stress Test!

[BrianE]

When we changed batteries in Tom's coach any photos would have looked like two cats fighting in a gunny sack with their butts hanging out. UGLY

Gary, Find two big guys and you be the supervisor and camera operator. Safer that way.

[MangoMike]

Gary,

These guys are a bunch of sissies. Just changed mine on the Liberty. So Man Up you can do it.

Mango

[phorner]

Mike,

Did you have to remove the entertainment center?

I think that's the case with mine, so I'm not looking forward to that day.

[garyde]

Here are some photos of my removal of the existing Batteries today.

http://picasaweb.google.com/garydein...y=p8XaXLN6Lco#

It took about 3 hours to remove the 4 old Batteries and install the 4 new ones. With a 10 foot stick of 2 inch rigid conduit, 2' unistrut, and a Jack stand & rollers, I was able to do this solo.

[Ray Davis]

Now THAT is engineering!

[MangoMike]

GD,

I stand corrected.

You're not a sissie.

mm

[Jon Wehrenberg]

Brilliant, not only for figuring a method to do it, but for its simplicity.

What the photos do not show is all of the work leading up to the replacement and then the re-installation of all that had to be disassembled and removed just to get access to each individual battery. Great job.