Re: Need Dual batts, another use for a Warn FF kit

[Luke Nelson <lnelson@domain.elided>]

I run either a size 6D or 8D *I think it is 6* that I bought at country
General - it is HUGE & HEAVY - but it has about 1200 CCA's and like 3
hours of reserve time (maybe not quite 3 hours)  However even in our balmy
-20's I am starting up which makes me happy :)

Luke

ps.  It took me like a hour to get that battery in there


> Tom Harais wrote:
> > Sounds like you need a remote starter and a block heater! :-)
> 
> ;-)
> 
> I have an in-line coolant heater.. that gets used from time to time.. 
> 
> But a remote start would NOT do me any good 'round here.  1) manual
> choke.  2) you MUST have the clutch in to start at -20 or so... just
> letting the clutch out once the motor's running with the trans in
> Neutral can sometimes bog the motor down enough to stall!  90wt's a
> little stiff this time of year...
> 
> > up buying two or three of them at about $80 per. The same thing happened to
> 
> I bought a "NASCAR" series 800amp or so battery last winter.. I took it
> out this summer right after I got back from NWBRU.. I thought the
> battery had died.. turned out to be a bad battery cable.. but I'd
> already swapped the Die Hard in... the plan has been to put the Exide in
> on the passenger side fender as a backup.. 
> 
> > I gave up beleiving in "special" batteries some time ago.
> 
> *nod*  I think I'd go for an Optima though.. NOT just because it's a
> "good battery".. but more because of the dry-cell technology that'll let
> me mount the battery any way and any where I want.. specifically, under
> the bed, where it could easily get dunked in mud n' water routinely..
> most of the people around here run Die Hards or the blem'd Interstates
> from another local battery place. :-)
> 
> -Tom
>