by waaytoomuchintothis » Fri Oct 05, 2012 4:59 pm
This weekend, I'm fixing my legs... Well, the golf cart I get around in on the property and running back and forth next door. There are 6 batteries, 8 volts each, and they are longer and taller than a normal car (1956-1985), battery, and they weigh 90 pounds each. They are packed in tight in the battery spot, and the only good way for me to get them out is with an old engine hoist I have sitting in the barn and a chain rig I dreamed up. Today, I got the old ones out, and the new set ($840), goes in tomorrow. I found out after I had the old one out that the reason they were so tight in there was that they were jammed in by the 1/2 inch of corrosion that surrounded them in the frame rails. It took two hours of chipping and spraying corrosion eater and flushing with a high pressure hose to uncover the proper spots for the batteries to sit. Of course, all the battery cables were junk, so were the hold down bolts. What a mess.
By this time tomorrow I expect the golf cart to be a hot rod and a half. The batteries I removed today were 5.5 years old.