Battery Retainer & Bolt

[beermonkey9417]

all i got is a bungee cord holding mine down

 

[foxtrot]

I have one of those optima 800 cca batteries from Autozone...

 

[foxtrot]

A bungee cord – that works but I’m too anal for that. 🙂

Is that an inferno behind you in that pic?

 

[Bonnewagon]

That big Bosch I found in the trunk of my wife's Cobalt, no hold down, no venting, just bouncing around. YIKES! There is supposed to be an overboard vent for the specific sealed AC Delco battery but the previous owner dumped that brand new Bosch in there. I yanked that and installed the correct series Odyssy gel cell model-no fumes and it is clamped down solid. So that big sucker I put in the Bonnewagon, but it literally is jammed in there. My old Malibu had that GM plastic clamp that grabs the lip on the bottom of the battery case and fits all sizes, but that only works with the metal tray that rusts out. So for me it was the hokey Walmart clamp, but it works.

 

[carmangary]

I just have that thing that hooked into the groove at the bottom of the battery. Before that I also had the bungi cord.

 

[foxtrot]

I decided to purchase the "OE" battery bracket from gbody parts dot com. I installed it tonight and it fits like a glove! I like it!

Although, I'm still trying to figure out what I did with the original one. Thank god for the guys over at g-body parts dot com!

 

[Blake442]

Although, I'm still trying to figure out what I did with the original one.

Well, now that you bought and installed a new one, the old one should turn up any day now! :lol:

 

[foxtrot]

I have so many boxes of old car parts, so you never know. So much so that I was up in the attic tonight and I found a complete GN trim set!