I know that questions regarding the installation of a second battery have probably been addressed one thousand times over but I'm new to this and really nervous about doing this wrong. Here goes:
Yesterday, I started pulling apart my van with the intention of connecting the second battery that I have under the driver's seat. I have a 1980 Westfalia. It's the Canadian model so, according to my research, it would have shipped with a second battery installed. According to the pretty diagrams in my Bently, there should be a couple of grommets in the bottom of the battery compartment under the driver's seat that the wiring would have originally passed through. There are none. Again, according to Bently diagrams, there should be a threaded hole just slightly under the drivers seat to which the braided ground strap would have fastened. Again, there is not one.
I had intended to run a nice big cable from that battery compartment back to the engine and connected it to the relay that I purchased.
Now, I am nervous. I don't really want to start drilling holes through the body of my van. What else can I do? How can I ground the batter to the frame is that threaded hole is not there? Am I missing something really obvious? Help!
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