Date:         Mon, 25 Aug 2014 13:08:13 -0700
Reply-To:     Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Battery almost disaster
Comments: To: Larry Alofs <lalofs@gmail.com>
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I too have wondered about the tar blob; I recently saw something similar on
another persons vanagon.

As a small aside, On my 1988 Westfalia, As per a tip from Mark Drillock,
I found that removing the metal frame at top edge of the driver side
battery box has certainly made battery removal easier. My 81 still has this
frame. One has to find a new way to attach the lid though as the lid
normally attaches to this frame with four screws.

This would depend mostly on screw length, but it seems to me that if the
forward LH screw were too long, it *might* come into contact with the
positive lead(s). This is a remote possibility though.

I put a layer or two of duck tape on the inside of the battery box lid.

Neil




On Sunday, August 24, 2014, Larry Alofs <lalofs@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> .......



>   I don't know exactly what kind of cover is over the battery on your
> Westy, but late model tin-tops generally have a  steel cover hinged at the
> back edge, with a carpet flap that also folds from the back.  The positive
> post of the battery is supposed to have a plastic cover.
>   On the '91 GL I've been working on, the carpet has a 3/4 inch hole above
> that location and the bottom has a burned appearance.  When I looked
> closely at the metal lid, I found a very small hole there and that the area
> was distorted and bulging upward, presumably from high temperature at one
> time.
>   BTW, does anyone know whether that big glob of tar-like stuff is the
> factory installed method of fastening the carpet to the metal lid?
>
> Larry A.
>
>
>
>



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