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Little mod to my VAC Case

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Richard G.

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I really like my 51 VAC but have always hated dealing with the battery behind the gas tank. Very hard to get to and my shoulders don't like lifting it out. Also hate the rust associated with batteries behind the tank and over the tool box.
Welded this holder on to some steel already bolted on the tractor and only mod is the hole in sheet metal. Can be repaired easily if someone wants it restored after I am gone. It is a work tractor on our place.
Richard in NW SC
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That's a nice mod! Case had a habit of putting batteries in a difficult to get to spot til the 90 seriescame out. Many of the 30 and 70 series tractors had simmilar updates done.
 
Some engineers need some of that shoved up their backsides sideways and spun.

Like the guy at Kinze who put a grease plug in a recess on the end of a pin, that you can barely get started using your fingernails, whilst laying on the ground between a set of duals, where you are only a couple inches from full reach, trying to start it.

If that engineer had walked up right then, he'd have had a ferro-rectal inversion big enough to hold 1200 bushels.
 
The best tractors are the ones setup as you need them to be to get the job done. Good deal. I was thinking of something similar for my AC-B. Get rid of that old battery box under the steering column. If the owner after me wants to put it back, is their deal. BTW, whats that tractor off in the distance behind that Deere just over the fender of the VAC? Kind of looks like a Ford with a hog hanging from the back.

Mark
 
The Delta rep would tell you to put a clamp on top of the battery and bolt it down tight to extend the life of the battery. The rubber strap will allow too much movement of the battery and shorten it's life. At least that's what he told me.
 
Mark, that is a small 3 pt sprayer with a 12 volt pump and 25 gallon tank. I had the sprayer and someone gave me the 3 pt frame. Works very well.
Richard
 
(quoted from post at 09:06:45 07/11/15) The Delta rep would tell you to put a clamp on top of the battery and bolt it down tight to extend the life of the battery. The rubber strap will allow too much movement of the battery and shorten it's life. At least that's what he told me.
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All the motorcycle and ATV ones that I've had, and the neighbors John Deere lawn tractor, have the rubber strap.
 
Looks good, but I would have put a grommet in the sheet metal, and then run the battery cable through it.
 
Nice job - functional! I've built a few like that myself.

In our neighborhood, we had a guy who was a section hand on the railroad, and farmed at night. Early one morning, about daybreak, he fell asleep and ran his old Case tractor off a bank, turning it upside down in a gravel road. It had him pinned, but what really worried him was the battery (not tied down) lying upside down on the bottom of the gas tank, making this ominous frying sound, while gasoline dribbled from the now inverted filler cap. He scratched up all of the gravel he could reach in a desperate attempt to create a dam to keep the gasoline from running under him, but gravel makes inadequate dam material. It never caught fire, and the mailman found him a few hours later. He managing to pry him out and hauled him to the local doctor who refused to unload him, and had the mailman carry him on to the hospital about 20 miles away. His major injury was a broken hip. I think of old Bill and his "Fryin' Batt'ry" story every time I install a battery in anything.

I don't remember what model Case he had, but your tractor reminds me of it.
 
Richard,
What serial number is your VAC? Also, I really like that you made sure the modifications were not permanent. I like all the mods on mine but try to make sure that I can put the tractor back to "stock" if I want.
 
Very good idea and practical. But I would advise you for the sake of safety to put a cover on it or at the least purchase one of those rubber covers for the positive terminal. The battery sitting out like that is a natural shelf to set things on when not thinking. Or by accident, tools or anything metal you may set on the hood could fall down there and start a fire. Especially since you have a gas tank there instead of diesel makes it even more touchy.
 
Apparently the manufacturers never talked to a battery rep. Or maybe they want to build more business for replacement batteries?
 
I built an extension for my MM R as that takes a short battery to go under gas tank. It also is now alongside and I can use a common 6 volt. Unbolts easily and you are back to original.
 
My parents had a mower that would never hold an OEM battery for more than a season at a time. A similar shelf was built to attach to the back of the mower that held a used car battery. That battery held on til the mower fell apart. I have passed this idea on to many people and helped extend the cables so others could benefit from this idea...

Aaron
 

My JD 4010D has the batteries relocated to just along side the starter. Much shorter cables and very easy to access.
 
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