Date:         Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:54:12 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: battery compartment
Comments: To: mcneely4@cox.net
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At 03:09 PM 7/9/2010 Friday, mcneely4@cox.net wrote:
>My '91 VW Vanagon GL Campmobile has a gasketed lid that has four
>screws to hold it in place over the battery box.  The box has a vent
>on the forward side that appears to exit the box on the front but
>then turn downward.  No swinging door, the only opening the only
>opening the gasketed lid, and the vent in the front wall.

Sorry, I guess on the non-Westys they were always swinging doors on
both sides.  Possibly on a factory dual-battery setup they used a
gasketed cover for both boxes?  That would make sense, of a sort.  I
suppose they were concerned on the Westy about the possible
combination of hydrogen and cooking flames...

Yrs,
d