Date:         Fri, 19 Jul 2002 12:38:34 -0400
Reply-To:     Jay L Snyder <Jay.L.Snyder@USA.DUPONT.COM>
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From:         Jay L Snyder <Jay.L.Snyder@USA.DUPONT.COM>
Subject:      Re: Second Battery Question
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---------------------- Forwarded by Jay L Snyder/AE/DuPont on 07/19/2002
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Harmon Seaver <hseaver@cybershamanix.com> on 07/19/2002 10:49:43 AM

To:    Jay L Snyder/AE/DuPont@DuPont
cc:
Subject:    Re: Second Battery Question


   Well, the thing with the drivers seat is that it seems to move forward
okay,
but that's just on the tracks on the black swivel plate. And it's the
bottom of
the swivel plate itself that covers the trapdoor. Now, on the passenger
side,
all I have to do is swivel the seat around as Jay said, and the door is
uncovered on that side, but the drivers side can't swivel all the way
around
because it hits the steering wheel. You'd think they black swivel plate
would
slide forward on the stock seat tracks built into the floor, but so far I
don't
see any mechanism for that.
   Also, those compartments don't seem nearly big enough to take a normal
sized
battery, at least on the passenger side it's only about 7"Hx6"Wx12"L. I
suppose
I could put a small battery under the drivers seat (even if I have to
unbolt the
thing) then a bigger one in the engine compartment next to the starter
battery. There's a *lot* of room there -- the starter battery could slide
over
under the deck easily with a bit longer cables, and then almost a
full=sized
deep cycle will fit in the regular battery tray. Unfortunately the
deepcycle I
have is too tall unless I cut the posts off and put a piece of rubber over
it to
insulate it from the engine cover.


On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 10:56:07AM -0400, Jay L Snyder wrote:
>
> Did you try swivelling the seat around first?  On my '85, I have to turn
> the passenger seat around and run it all the way front to get at the
> screwed down cover.
>
>
> Jay

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