Car batteries...'72 vette

[6spdC6]

Originally Posted by mrvette

OLD ET HERE, from the 60's yet, been reworking cars for decades, necessity as well as hobby, and ALL the wiring has been redone in this car....especially the grounds....battery, engine, fans, etc....

SO I decided to take my cphone with me and go battinator shopping stopped into about 6 parts houses......and the cheapest battery of correct size was marked MARINE Deep cycle.....76 bux.....P24 size with good 1/4 inch studs on the top BUTTTTTT the 'more normal' auto batteries in anything approaching the correct size were 200 bux same size batt case....so go figger.....AND it is rare to find any battery with the studs on it for my wiring style.....except the marine batt.....go figger....whole damn shelf full of them 7' high and some 15' wide all them stupid batteries, not a dime worth of difference between them, and the same price too.....WTF???

I know you know your way around cars.

They actually make 2 kinds of Marine battery's. One a heavy duty version of a regular car battery. Heavy duty because of all the bouncing a boat does. The other Marine type battery is a deep discharge one that is designed to be pulled way down and then take a recharge without running into your normal dead battery problems when you run it down too far.

Good luck!

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by 6spdC6

I know you know your way around cars.

They actually make 2 kinds of Marine battery's. One a heavy duty version of a regular car battery. Heavy duty because of all the bouncing a boat does. The other Marine type battery is a deep discharge one that is designed to be pulled way down and then take a recharge without running into your normal dead battery problems when you run it down too far.

Good luck!

YEH, my skeleton can't take much high speed boat bouncing, I always sat in the back and let the rest of the guyz up front take the beating......
Me thinks that 76 buck battinator is the way to go......

BUT still, today engine starts fine...today sort of a test run.....so confusion reigns supreme.....grrrrrrrr.......

[mrvette]

My oldest friend called an hour or so.....

AND same shit happened to HIM......car running fine, pulled it out of the garage to make room for another project.....an hour later.....dead battinator , same as me......YGTBFKM......

BUT he stuck to his story.....GRRRRRRRR........

[mrvette]

so went nowhere today, and went to start the vette 350.......even jumped in the extra battery, and DVM directly on the batt terminals......no start and down to the same 5 volts I saw before, this after driving/starting at least 6 times yesterday at varous parts houses looking for battery prices but today....dead again....WTF.....

[dvarapala]

My 3-year-old Interstate battery from Costco died on my wife the other day - she had to call AAA and get it jumped. The tow truck guy tested the starter, the charging system, and the battery and all tested normal. When she got home I put the battery on a tender and charged it fully. Waiting to see what happens...

The good thing is when you buy from Costco it comes with a 42-month warranty.

[Grey Ghost]

Johnson Controls was the key US maker and may still be the only US maker of batteries. They would slap a different sticker on the same battery - NAPA, WALMART, Sears, etc...for a long time.