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[Judge]

Originally Posted by MTcamper

Very timely! I am waiting for it to quit snowing here in Montana so I can get my SV34 off the mountain to a battery shop (not sure I want to try out the 4x4 in that manner!) I was planning on replacing my 2 stock 6 volts with 4 better quality 6 volts (my son wants the old 6v's to replace the 12v batteries in his RV). I didn't realize there was so much to it-guess I better do some more research-thanks Judge!

One thing to watch......

The stock batteries and the new Duracell's were the same dimensions but my stock batteries had a very short standard post in addition to the threaded post. The Duracell batteries has a standard size post in addition to the threaded post.

I put the new Duracell's to the front of the battery tray and they partially slide slightly under the middle step. I figured the stock batteries would need replaced sooner so I made them more easily accessible.

The taller post of the Duracell makes one of the positive posts very close to hitting the underside of the step. I decided to insulate that positive post to protect it from accidentally touching the metal step frame and causing an arc or short if I hit a bump and the battery was jolted upwards.

You should be able to get by re-using the single post for all of the positive cables to connect to a single point but I think you will still need to relocate it to the center of the back wall of the battery tray. It would be much more difficult to try and fit 4 batteries in there with all of the positive cables all terminating in the center of the battery tray.