Date:         Mon, 14 May 2018 13:57:08 -0700
Reply-To:     David McNeely <davmcneely40@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         David McNeely <davmcneely40@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Friday survey for Westy owners
Comments: To: Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com>
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Battery box and cover intact, and hold down clamp present and holding the
battery down.  The cover has been beaten up considerably however.  Bent,
wrong screws used.  Seal torn.  I fabricated a seal from an old inner tube
(who besides me remembers inner tubes?).

On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 8:29 PM, Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com> wrote:

> Ditto. (’82 Diesel)
>
> > On May 11, 2018, at 5:25 PM, Roy Nicholl <RNicholl@NBNET.NB.CA> wrote:
> >
> > What do you mean battery under the seat.  … I thought they were back in
> the engine box ;-)
> >
> >
> > Just joking … the Hyena (’88) has one under the passenger seat.
> hold-down is fine, but someone prior to me set he cover free … it it wasn’t
> for the carpet, I think it might have left already.
> >> On 11-May-2018, at 12:57, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Okay folks, I'm curious about something. How many of you
> camper/Weekender owners have unmolested battery boxes behind the passenger
> seat? How many intact boxes have you seen? I’m not going to bother to ask
> how many still have the battery hold down clamp.
> >>
> >> The box on my ’84 was fine because I bought it when it was only two
> years old, and I’m not an idiot. But, both my son’s ’87 and my current ’85
> have butchered boxes. Mine is sawed 3” down both sides for easy bending
> (hard on the carpet), and my son’s box back edge was hammered into
> oblivion.
> >>
> >> It’s too bad Westfalia Werks didn’t put an instruction label on the
> battery cover, it was a terrible oversight. 😉
> >>
> >> Stuart
>