No More Flooded Lead-Acid Batteries for Me

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dibbons

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Both the '65 ABodies here (Signet convertible and Formula S) have a hole in the sheet metal under the battery trays thanks to years of acid drips. The green battery tray in the photo was fabricated here (in Mexico) and now its time to fabricate another one for the second vehicle (see the factory one on the right in the photo which already had the bottom replaced once over). Shipping a flimsy repro from the USA just isn't worth the trouble for me when I can pay maybe twenty bucks here for real angle iron (I'm willing to fudge on "factory correct" in this case). I'll just be trading the one AGM battery around between the ABodies (and '72 Satellite Sebring Plus) until/when I feel like invested in another one or two.

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You may have an issue of rough roads? down there

But in "more normal" situations, flooded batteries are not "per se" the problem

Poorly mounted and clamped
Overcharge (over voltage) partly/ mostly due to the voltage drop problems in these girls
And in some cases......overfilled
 
A gel type battery might serve you better.
 
The only times your battery is going to leak fluid is when it's over charging or over filled ,or on really really rough road
 
I can't count the number of times I've popped the hood to see no battery hold down, or a rotted bungee cord.....
 
Cheapest battery I ever bought was a red-top Optima dry-cell sealed battery.
The Buy-in was 40 or 50% more, but the dang thing was new in about 2002, and last I checked, still works
 
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