How hard can it be?

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Just give me the old battery, I can find a use for it. :)
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As Arkwright would have said...

"ggggive you the old battery? I could ssssell you the old battery"

Come to think of it, that was his response when someone asked if he could give them the time... :-k :lol:




Some good advice/warnings here about charging these repro batteries... :?
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looks like it comes down to battery chemistry and whether its is sealed for life or not

they all have a vent....so all can be boiled dry...

as i say ive never had a problem particularly with the old skool wet plate type, holds its charge for 5-6 months at a time if need be.
some sit on the shelves at halfords longer than that i'm sure.

i rarely top them up

in Euro terms 096 is the right height, fits the try and has the + and - in the right place. it has higher cranking amps than the original but not so high as to be a burden on your electricals when it needs a good charge from the alternator

to me this makes no sense
https://www.classicindustries.com/product/md2470.html

nice old OEM style case stuffed with the type of tech a modern car, boat or golf cart would have and yet its being charged by what amounts to 1920s-1960s technology... we don't have ECU controlled power and charging circuits.


won't ever leak mind so can be lugged about indefinitely unless the vent guts truly blew out

you might be able to revive it with a charger that has a desulfation programme
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Well we finally settled on a replacement for the old expensive Gp27 resto 'red top' battery.
Did consider going down the smaller Gp24 equivalent size battery (70Ah, 600 CCA) and buying a 'battery topper' to make it look like an original type battery. But at an extra $100 or so plus shipping time & cost etc, decided to go for just a plain black equivalent to the old battery and see how we get on.
Settled on this Yuasa battery:
https://www.gsfcarparts.com/971na0540
No doubt there's cheaper / better ones out there but i ordered and collected it the next day and it has a 4yr warranty.
And it's less than 1/4 of the price of a new resto battery.
Oh well turns out I probably didn't need to change the starter in the first place. Guess i'll keep the old one on the shelf as a spare.
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We'll have to rough it up a bit, so it looks 57 years old like the rest of the engine bay :oops: :lol:

Hopefully one day though, we can get back to having a more period-looking battery. I haven't been able to find any photos of batteries in-situ from back in the day but this is the only one I could find that looked likely, tho admittedly it's trunk-mounted in a late 63 lightweight:


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And this is the nearest available today, for the princely sum of $359 :?

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The New Red Top (a good few years ago) in my Blue Superbird lasted about 10 minutes and let me down at Santa Pod, so I think I would initially opt for reliability than appearance....
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Stick with the Yuasa, it will do the job, put a Mopar sticker on it and most people won't know any different. :)
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Derek wrote: Sun Oct 04, 20 11:48 am Stick with the Yuasa, it will do the job, put a Mopar sticker on it and most people won't know any different. :)
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Yes we considered one of those stickers but both agreed they just look like what they are - the wrong logo sticker on a modern battery, so we'll make do with plain black for now thanks :)

The old red top that we've just replaced had been in there since we imported it 16 years ago, so stick that in your pipe and smoke it :P :lol:
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yep that Yuasa is the one i have, a step up from the bargain basement Lion. and i only got it cos at the time lion batteries were not on offer

has proved to be good so far. the words of wisdom from Redit..ha...! say they are better.... i'm easily swayed



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