Wednesday, November 25, 2009

GMC Motorhome House Batteries

This post is for my GMC friends. House battery replacement in our GMC is not an easy task. We had to get these from here, up and into here. This is no easy task. The inner fenders have to come out. Not that bad getting them out but is a real bear getting them back in a lined up. This is the new Ragusa 3 battery tray I got from Jim K. It holds two house batteries and the engine battery. We did not have to remove the engine battery to get the house batteries in. That was a good thing.
Well, we are half done. Finished the passenger side. I push up from the bottom while TerI pulls from the top side, with a rope.

Now, over to the driver's side. We got to do it all again.


These two must be heaved up and into their resting place.






And, here they sit. Whew, that was a chore. We got out early this morning and got these girls up and in. They ride there with nothing holding them in. Kinda scary but have never had a problem. Not enough room for them to bounce out. Hooked them all up and presto, got our coach ready for a week of dry camping in the rain. As long as the sun shines every other day, or so, we have electricity to run everything in our coach. I like being self sufficient. In Az. the sun rarely misses a day so we are good to go.

The worst part of the entire deal was getting those inner fenders back in there. I am going to figure out some way to make that much easier. I know there is a way.
Well, that was our biggest accomplishment for today. The last thing on my 10 item list of "to do s" before we head west.
Teri and I hope that everyone has a great Thanksgiving, with family and friends. We are extremely thankful for the friends that we have, many of them have come into our lives because of this old GMC motorhome.
Dan





posted by Dan & Teri Gregg @ 3:50 PM

2 Comments:

At November 26, 2009 at 3:35 AM , Blogger Unknown said...

Dan,

Real world dry camping, running a few 12v lights and the furnace, how long do those batt's go between charges, and how much can you put back with solar?

BTW, you would LOVE the Revcon battery location- house batts are in a slide out on the outside, adjacent to the inside location of the converter, start battery under a hatch in the cab. If it wasn't for those $1000 windshields and super rare wheels.....

Happy thanksgiving

 
At November 28, 2009 at 8:50 AM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hey Dan, there's a neat device that allows for extremely easy topping-up of those house batteries. It's Pro-Fill Handy Pump, RV-2020. For 6 volt batteries. Came with my 1977 Eleganza II back in May 2009.

The first time I used this thing, two months after purchasing the coach, I put 2 qts. (quarts!) of water into the two batteries!

 

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