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/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl General Category >> Rubber Side Down! >> Hard Time Finding a Battery /cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1159197933 Message started by Enfield_fan on 09/25/06 at 08:25:33 |
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Title: Hard Time Finding a Battery Post by Enfield_fan on 09/25/06 at 08:25:33 Well, my buddy's Savage's battery is on its last legs...requires a jump about every other start-up, these days...and the replacement has proven remarkably hard to find here locally (Eastern North Carolina). One can find the equivalent battery with the overflow vent on the OTHER end of the box fairly easily, but the genuine article for the Savage is a tough one. Clerks on the phone will tell you "Yeah, we've got that one," but when you get into the store and get them flipping through the parts book, they wrinkle their foreheads and say "Well, we don't have that one in stock, but we can order it." Usually for somewhere north of $75. Prices in the local cycle shops are even higher. What's the best way to get...uh..."hooked up"? |
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Title: Re: Hard Time Finding a Battery Post by Savage Librarian on 09/25/06 at 09:28:12 I had the same trouble. I ended up getting one with the vent on the other side and got a little creative with the battery box to make it fit. A small bit of cutting was involved with a hacksaw, but it works. |
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Title: Re: Hard Time Finding a Battery Post by Reelthing on 09/25/06 at 09:43:28 Well if it were me I'd sure go with the sealed AGM like this one http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?board=RubberSideDown;action=display;num=1138061012;start=#7 |
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Title: Re: Hard Time Finding a Battery Post by smokey02 on 09/25/06 at 10:34:21 I got the sealed AGM model ETX15L from BigCrank.com, It's actually a Deka from East Penn battery company. $50 + $10 for shipping. No more vent tube, it's a sealed battery, it can be shipped UPS fully charged. I had to bend my battery connectors flat on one edge since the new battery has wider terminals, was easy to do with a vicegrip. It works great, the starter doesn't just crank the engine anymore, IT SPINS, and instantly its running. I'm very happy with it. |
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Title: Re: Hard Time Finding a Battery Post by Dynobob on 09/25/06 at 12:17:01 Check with Advance Auto Parts. They may surprise you. If you're anywhere near Gastonia, I know someone who works at a dealer there that could help you find something. |
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Title: Re: Hard Time Finding a Battery Post by Enfield_fan on 09/25/06 at 12:27:11 Actually, scratch that. It just moved. |
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Title: Re: Hard Time Finding a Battery Post by cphilip on 09/29/06 at 16:34:13 Alright you scally wags.... Oh wait... talk like a Pirate day was last week... Um... be carefull if you order one of these as they sent me the wrong one. I ordered the 15L and they send the 15. The battery posts are to the front on this one. And no way to install it. So be sure you check that when you get it. Now I gotta deal with a return. And get another one. Dang it.... |
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Title: Re: Hard Time Finding a Battery Post by Dragon King on 09/29/06 at 17:55:40 I get mine from interstste battery always had one in stock. sear's may have one but they will be high. |
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Title: Re: Hard Time Finding a Battery Post by georgekathe on 09/29/06 at 21:47:45 must say $50 for sealed AGM battery sounds a great deal - have one on bike I'm selling & never had issue with it (just as well, because you have to take the whole left hand fairing, seat, etc. off to get @ it). & who said some things on Savage are relatively inaccesssible? (OK, me included, first time I had to take tank off to get @ spark plug!) :) |
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Title: Re: Hard Time Finding a Battery Post by mickthelimey on 09/30/06 at 15:29:43 I don't want to make you guys feel bad but I found a battery at my local hardwhare store on sale for $16, I had to fernawgel it a bit the vent was on the wrong side,hacksawed it off squeezed the tube into the small hole I had created ,and bobs your uncle,that was 5 months ago,still going strong. |
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Title: Re: Hard Time Finding a Battery Post by georgekathe on 09/30/06 at 19:17:52 are you sure you are not a Scot (to perpetuate a stale stereotype) & not a fellow Englishperson, Mick? (not that I have anything against saving a few pennies if I get get a suitable product for a good price) :) |
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Title: Re: Hard Time Finding a Battery Post by mickthelimey on 10/01/06 at 00:32:21 Born Oxford England 1937, Father English Mother ,English Grandmother,Irish.........So I'm only slightly contaminated, My Mum always called me Mick except when she was mad at me,then it was MICHAEL ! I used to be a big spender before I retired,thats how come I have to be cheap now,spent it all fast bikes and slow horses,and six wives ( I kid you not) |
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Title: Re: Hard Time Finding a Battery Post by Trippah on 10/01/06 at 17:33:58 Was that sequentially or simultaneously? ;D |
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Title: Re: Hard Time Finding a Battery Post by georgekathe on 10/02/06 at 08:18:36 me too Mick (not born to your folks, I mean) - but a big spender who though not now retired (just opted out of rat race) am living cheap (hence the used Savage) as he was a big spender in his day (can't equal you though - I only liked moderately fast bikes then (hence loving the Savage now). Somehow got through the $$$ anyway. can't beat you on wives though - on my 4 (I also kid you not) & last. so much for America & Americans having a rep for a high divorce rate, eh!??? my folks were London Mum, English Dad (I think there is a bit of a distinction - much like NY & the rest of the USA). I say I'm from London more than England when asked the inevitable "Where you from?" (I have - obvoiusly - not lost the "accent" after being here for 20 years. :D |
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Title: Re: Hard Time Finding a Battery Post by cphilip on 10/02/06 at 09:20:36 So do your Savages come in reverse image for riding on the wrong side of the road as well? ;D |
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Title: Re: Hard Time Finding a Battery Post by georgekathe on 10/02/06 at 18:32:25 can't say now - I moved here in 1987 when Savages were new bikes & never saw them there. can speak for "normal" bikes - apart from the back brake gear lever (opposite sides of bike) on old(er) British bikes the other ones were much the same as here, your usual Japanese & some German. not a pletora of Milwaukee Iron lugging around the British countryside, where they would have stuck out like a sore thumb. Now the Savage would have fit in wonderfully, just like my very light (based on a XT500) 1979 Yamaha SR500 single road bike - amazing through the turns with a set of Dunlop tyres (sic) & Girling (brand) shocks on the back! the Savage makes me think of it a lot... with lots of :) moreover, who says we drive on the wrong side of the road - I always thought the left was the right side if you catch my drift. (seriously, I could give a very good historical lesson, dating back to men on horseback armed with swords as to why it is logical to ride along a path on the left side towards a passerby. it's to do with drawing your sword with your right arm across your body, where it is hung on your left, in case of a threatening guesture from the other person. basically why the left was chosen in England. think those durn foreigners/Europeans messed it up) ;D |
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