1966 Plymouth Satellite HP2

[Fran Blacker]

Bought a repo battery with no acid from Jim Kramer 25 years ago is questionable. If I put acid now how long do you think it would last?

 

[dadsbee]

Bought a repo battery with no acid from Jim Kramer 25 years ago is questionable. If I put acid now how long do you think it would last?

I only got about 4 seasons out of them new. If I do another one of these I think I'll cut the top off just below the lid seam and lift the entire guts out with the lid. Be much easier to gut the plates off and less chance of cracking the case. Glue in a couple of guide tabs and the hold down clamp would hold it all together.

 

[64fury74charger]

Odyssey PC925. Sealed AGM battery. You can use them in any position but upside down. The one in my airplane is now 12 years old and cranks so fast I can taxi down the lake on the starter alone. I have them in three of my cars, this will be 4. Same as my airplane I don't even bother charging them over the Winter. Everything starts in the Spring.

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Thank you for the information. There seems to be several different types of batteries now and it can get confusing because some are not designed to work safely in cars. Don’t want any battery fires or other potential issues. I really appreciate your detailed threads with lots of very good information.

 

[dadsbee]

Cutting the top off will also save having to do a bottom plate that I almost forgot! I just happen to have dozens of 8' cut offs that are 11.5" wide.

 

[dadsbee]

Proper metal K frame splash shields finally arrived in the mail. Thanks Big Bill for pulling and getting them off to me pronto... then they went AWOL for a week.

They're in pretty good shape and I could media blast and paint, but I think I'm going to attempt to make some new ones. I also need a pair for the '64 Dodge as well.

Putting a pizza box to good use.

Pattern done, now I just need some 19 or 18 gauge steel sheet. Nice thing is the left and right are identical, just bent opposite to each other and then spot welded.

 

[dadsbee]

I ordered the plain Jane PC925 and they did me a "favour" and sent me the most expensive 925 as a substitution with metal jacket and full size terminals.. FFS.

Thankfully the terminal posts bolt on and can be removed, otherwise they won't fit into the old script battery case.

Metric allen key and the terminals come off.

Full size cable terminals removed and fortunately I have an old Odyssey battery around with the metric bolts I can use.

Next snag... the metal jacket makes it just that much wider that it sits proud enough the bottom cover won't sit flat.

I can fix that...

1/4" cut off each "cells" plug boss.

Used another batteries install kit to bolt the case cables onto the battery.

Jammed some 1.5" Celfort on each side of the battery to keep it from moving around and installed the bottom cover.

Has always baffled me on how Odyssey rates their batteries. Their specs show only 330CCA, but they always pull over 1000CCA. Battery is only about 90% charged here to boot.

 

[dadsbee]

Finished battery into place.

K frame shield patterns traced and ready for cutting out on 0.040" steel sheet. Holes and reliefs all drilled, noting and duplicating that the originals had a different size relief radius on every corner.

Another inch width of sheet would have made life easier, but it is what it is. Sheet cut off square at 9".

Everything cut and deburred.

The easy bend done.

Sneaking in as much as I can on the ends of the brake.

Got more bent than I thought I would, dolly hammer and a bucking bar from here.

Both fully formed and ready to spot weld. Checked fit to car first and they fit nicely into place.

4 spot welds on each tab overlap just like the OE's.

Ready to prep and paint.

 

[Islandkent]

110 or 220 version? I see the 220's are on sale this week. The 110 do a nice job on clean sheet metal.

 

[dadsbee]

110 or 220 version? I see the 220's are on sale this week.

Cheap 110 I got on sale for 1/2 price a couple years back.. Works fine on 20 gauge (actually 19 in this case at 0.040).

 

[Islandkent]

Same. Never did use it much, but the price was too good to pass up.

 

[AR67GTX]

Those shields look perfect. Nice work - people will be wanting you to go into production with them.

 

[Belvedere408]

Top notch work

 

[Richard Cranium]

Top notch work

Agreed. In fact it’s almost as good as I could do.

 

[Black_Sheep]

Top notch work!

 

[dadsbee]

Top notch work!

Thanks! Got ahead of myself though, forgot that I have a can of weld thru primer on it's way before I finished these. Oh well the next sets will get primer in the folds before spot welding and then paint. Something originals never got...

 

[Runcharger]

Hmm: I didn't think those spot welders would be that great. Looks like I'll have to buy one.
Dang, easy to spend money, the 220Volt Spotter is on sale so I bought one, I'll pick it up when I get home from Mexico. Wish I'd have had it when I did my son's Charger.

 

[Big bill]

Those look really nice great job.

 

[dadsbee]

Those look really nice great job.

Thanks for supplying the pattern! LOL "Yours" are going to get blasted, painted and installed on the '64 Dodge 440.

 

[71dodgechargerrt]

Seen those yesterday, look great Wayne.

 

[dadsbee]

She's alive after a Winter of sleep ! Cruise time tomorrow. Streets aren't great but the highways are pretty clean!