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Paul McKenzie

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What a few people have done including myself to find a small light battery is to visit a repair workshop that specialises in Garden tractors. Mosts of these sell batteries of a comparable size to a Caterham one and are usually quite cheap. The output is usually slightly lower the the original Caterham one but mine has been fine for the last three years.
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I also need a new battery for my short-cockpit crossflow car. I don't know where they are on Vauxhalls but mine is under the steering column and looks tricky to extract. Any (helpful) hints?

 

Part numbers for easily obtainable (e.g. Halfords, Les Smith, Bosch, etc.) batteries would be very appreciated.

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Aidan,

what fun you have ahead of you. Check first that you have a Y shaped cross member betwixt the batter tray andengine. If not then you can jack the car up and squeeze the battery out from beneath (not familiar with short cockpits).

If you've got then I'm afraid you'll need to split your steering column (just in front of the dash bulkhead) take out the bottom section from the rack to the bulk head (straight forward but don't mix up the halves of the clamp as they're drilled as a pair). Undo the rearmost webber or take em off if you prefer and then you should (just) be able to squeeze the battery out minding the brake line as you go... There's a complete set of instructions in the caterham manual

 

next you talk to james Whiting who sells a small rack and clamps that re-locates the battery above your bell-housing so you don't have to bugger about in such a rediculous way in future (twice for me, what's the adage...? once bitten twice stupid...)

 

Oh, also get a battery isolator switch which stops the battery getting discharged and dying in the first place.

 

Cheers, Simon.

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