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Subject:Re: Newbie battery questions
From:Kim Brennan
Date:Sun, 13 May 2007 22:06:53 -0400

I'm going to throw one additional nugget of detail to your
explanation. Chock your wheels and take the emergency brake OFF.
Because all too frequently if you don't, when you turn the pedestal
on the camper's drivers seat, you'll scar up the handle on the
emergency brake lever.

On May 13, 2007, at 9:00 PM, Loren Busch wrote:

> As for removing the aux battery, not a big deal.  First, you remove
> the
> drivers seat by sliding it off to the front.  There a a little
> spring loaded
> metal tab on the side of the track that has to be depressed to
> allow the
> seat to come off.  Next, you turn the seat base around 180 degrees
> and that
> will give enough clearance to pull the aux battery.  If the seat
> mounting
> plate wont' turn you can loosen the four nuts holding it down.  I
> mention
> this because the drivers seat rarely gets turned and can be quite
> stiff,
> almost impossible to rotate with the seat out.