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NAPA sells a commerical style maintenance free sealed 6 volt battery with faux caps. Working well for me except it had the fat posts which don't fit stock cables well. I did see some tapered post caps at O'Reilly AP.

Rick, to keep your 6 volt system happy, toss the stock cables, go to a farm implement store and purchase heavy gauge cables.

The car will start better ...... and the cables will fit the new 6 volt battery.

Good tip, Bob. Thanks.

Will look into it. Thanks

Rick

I just replaced the battery in my '33 coupe. The date on the old one was May of 2005. I guess I can't complain on the service life of that one!

and what brand was that battery ??

dick

It was a Fleet farm battery, they are a farm service store from Minnesota and Iowa. They seem to have their own brand of batteries but I do not know who makes them. They must be pretty good batteries. I checked my other 2 old Chevys and one has a 2011 battery and the other has a 2013 they are both still working good. I do keep them all connected to a battery maintainer and I think that has a lot to do with their long life. I think that is the secret more than the brand.
On edit, if the new battery lasts 13 years like the old one, my dear wife pointed out that I will be 86 when it needs replacing ( if I live that long) and I will not be able to lift it out from under the floor boards! I really don't want to think about that!!!

Fleet Farm ads I have seen say there batteries and East Penn made in Pennsylvania

I hadn't seen that but I am very satisfied with their batteries!

Uncle Ed,

I think maybe the tender is whats keeping your battery going. How about you driving that old piece of junk to the store to get your wife a cold Coca-Cola and a pack of square nabs and then go try start it go go home. Bet you wouldn't dare try that. No sir. You'd end up having to use one of those new fangled things that are starting to be popular out there in the sticks. You just take the ear piece off the hook and grind the crank and you can talk to people even further out West. (They've had um in CA for some time now.)

Also, please knock it off about age. You said your wife said you'd be 86 when the next battery wore out, if you lived that long. Think of time being not so fast. If you stay home and sit on the porch in your rocking chair looking in the distance for some dust a-rising down the road and getting closer and closer, it may be me a-coming to check out your missus seeing she's predicting your demise so soon! Take it easy, ol sport. You'll live a long, tong time that way. You'll be able to relate to the story about the guy who was talking to a real old guy and asked how long his dad had been dead. The old guy said "who said he's dead? Then the guy asked about his grandfathes death. The old guy said who said he's dead. The guy said you mean he's isn't dead. Tha old guy said no he's not and he's getting married next week to a real pretty eighteen year old girl. The guy said well that is amazing that he's so old and yet he wants to get married again. The old guy ssid "who said he wants to?

Yep, you posting about being 86 made me almost think of the scene in Tombstone where Doc and Ringo are about to have a gunfight. Doc said something about stepping on graves.

Best and give the missus a hug for me.

Charlie

OK Charlie, but how in the heck did you know about my Grandad???

Best wishes,
Ed