Mike
Don't you have any places out there that rebuild car batteries? There are
several companies in the Toronto area where I live, that charge $80.00 to
rebuild a battery , the turn around time is 1 or 2 days. The rebuild is
guaranteed for 1 year.
I had the top on my Lucas reproduction battery stripped and retared, the
cost was $20.00 and I had it back the next day.
Greg Higgins
AN-7
---- Original Message -----
From Mike Maclean <macleans at earthlink.net>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 1:17 AM
Subject: Repro Lucas Battery
> I just had to replace a new reproduction Lucas tar-top battery that had
> only been in the car since I got the engine running after rebuild. This
> car has not even been on the road yet! I had been charging it with a
> Surecharge float charger and getting corrosion on the terminals
> from long term float charging. It cooked off the battery acid below the
> plates on one cell and the rest were low. I have only run the engine
> for a gallon or two of gas so far, so I don't think the charging circuit
> in the car did this. The local Pep Boys put it on a battery analyzer
> and gave me a thumbs down on it. Replaced it with a Group 24 - 72 month
> battery and the car is back to normal. The old battery was working fine
> one day and acted like it was completely dead the next. Someone warned
> me about the repro batteries being advertised in the usual catalogs.
> For what I paid for the Lucas battery, I could have bought 2 1/2
> batteries like the one I put in tonight. Someone kick me.
> Mike MacLean-60 Sprite
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