Comments???
What are you smoking over there????
It should fit if it's a Group 26. I have the single 12v Conversion on 4 cars.
Two GTs (1 B - 1 C) and 2 Roadsters (1 B - 1 C) with absolutely no problems
fitting the Group 26 in either model (all with vinyl bins installed).
If there is a difference in Roadster and GT bin sizes, (and maybe there is
cause stranger things have happened) it is too small for me to have noticed
when fitting the group 26 battery. BTW, in one car I have an Interstate Group
26 but the others all have K-Mart Excide brand (real inexpensive - 600 CCA for
$40 or less) - all have handles (an absolute must). So I would suspect that
you do not have a group 26 size battery or a group 26 battery that, as
paradoxical as this may sound, is an odd-ball size.
Either way, go out and get another Group 26. Hook up the battery with no
handle to a float charger and use it as a spare. One more thing Jack, you
should know better than to smoke when working with batteries!!!
Dr. Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net On Behalf Of Feldman, Jack (Jack)
Sent: Friday, September 11, 1998 10:45 AM
To: 'mgs@autox.team.net'
Subject: Battery Size, Hmm, very interesting.
This spring, with two cars in storage, I had to chose which battery I would
use to wake up the C. I chose the one from the BGT because it had a handle
on it, and someone had removed the handle from the battery that came with
the C. Yesterday, in getting the BGT started I thought I would use the
stored battery that originally came with the C, and give the battery I had
been using a rest.
Now we all know that the sheet metal of the B and the C is the same from
the windscreen back. Indeed the replacement windscreen that was just
installed had been stocked as a B replacement.
The opening to the battery compartment on the BGT was too small to take be
battery that fit into the C! I know it came out of the C as easily as the B
batteries do, but why couldn't I fit it into the BGT? The C battery was
about an inch wider, but again, it did fit in the C.
Comments?
Jack
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