Check your battery tray!!!

[virden]

On my Xflow S3 the battery box lives on the chassis members under the carbs. Whilst under the car I noted some bubbling of the powder coat below the ally battery box. On removing the battery I found that acid had leaked through the rivets holes (none fitted!) in the tray onto the tube and eaten two 3mm holes in the top of the tube *eek*

Looks like I have some major welding to do *cry*

 

The strange thing is I can find no sigh of a battery leak. Guess it must of got very hot one day.

 

1700 Super Sprint, Team Lotus and clams

[Beverlonian]

Sorry to see you have some work to do.... my spill came from a failure of the seam between the body and top on the battery leaving this. CC had never seen it before, I'm glad I did before I ended up with holes in the frame. Hope you get sorted out soon.

Andy

 

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[david nelson]

The banner battery has a breather hole on one side. If you corner to hard acid will come out of it. There should be a pipe that goes from it to the ground .

 

After my banner splashed acid everywere i got ride and got a dry battery.

 

David

[Domus]

My Banner has a hole in each end, one is open the other has a small plug. CC told me to push in a length of washer tube, this is routed past the washer bottle to below the chassis.

 

 

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[Martin J]

My Banner has a hole in each end, one is open the other has a small plug. CC told me to push in a length of washer tube, this is routed past the washer bottle to below the chassis.

 

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Never even noticed the little hole before so thanks for the heads up

I removed my battery this evening & it's fine underneath but I'll see if I can do the washer tube mod.

Why don't CC fit a length of hose from the battery in the factory?