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Subject:Re: Battery Removal on '85 Westy...
From:k1cajun
Date:Sat, 19 Aug 2000 14:30:00 -0500

Slide the seat back as far as it will go and still allow you to swivel
the seat.  Then swivel it a full 180 degrees to face the rear.  Now you
can have a friend sit there and watch you take the battery out.  The
hardest part for me was the battery cable terminal gets in the way of
pulling the battery out.  I think that it's because the cable is too
short - just long enough to connect to the battery.

Phil Baird wrote:
>
> Got a problem.  I can't remove the battery under the passenger's seat.
> Lifting the battery out will not be a problem as it has a built in
> strap.  My problem is that even though I swivil the passenger seat 90
> degrees where it faces the driver's seat, the black, swivil platform
> assembly does not allow for enough space for me to lift the battery out.
> Somehow, it needs to move forward. The archives have proved of no help.
>
> Anybody got any ideas?
>
> Thanks....Phil in Bakersfield

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