Progress is going slow,
I had to drill ten 9/16 holes in the rear box in 1/32nd incriments, that's allot of drilling. I then used hardened bolts, washers, lock washers, and nuts to hold it in, I don't want one thouldsand pounds of batteries on me in case of a accident. LOL I also had to drill the holes for the high voltage lines to come into the rear of the car. The largest drill I had wasn't big enough so I had to use a file to finish the holes. Then I lifted the batteries into place after thouroghly washing them and wiping them down. I put a hour of charge into each of them as they had been sitting all winter in the other car. As the batteries are in a different configuration I had to figure which connections I could use and which I needed to replace. Upon inspection I noticed that some of them were corroded. So I looked around for something cast iron to use as a smelting pot but I couldn't find anything but a old brake drum. I opened the vise and put it in at a angle after wiping it out. I took one pound of 50/50 sodder and started heating the drum with a propane torch, I had seen my dad do this when I was young to make sinkers for fishing. Yesterday was cleaning day in the garage I had bought some new lugs and could not find them so when I clean I usually find what I am looking for. But not yesterday, so this morning I went to the welding supply and bought some more, the only thing is they were not tinned, so after sanding them and fluxing them they were ready for the smelting pot. With safety glasses on I dipped each one into the lead and rolled them around thus tinning them one at a time, by the time the next one was ready the molton lead had cooled and the process of heating it started all over again. Once I got the lugs tinned I turned my focus to the connections I had decided to use in this car, cleaning fluxing and tinning them one at a time. I then cleaned the lead on the battery with a copper brush so they would have the best connection they could have to the terminals.
