In rebuttal to what KENYON FAIREY wrote:

> In response to:
>
> > Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 16:52:59 -0400
> > From: Lawrence Johnson <ljohnson@HALHINET.ON.CA>
> > Subject: Re: Battery venting, etc.
> >
>  SNIP SNIP
> >
> > The Optima battery (yellow top) is probably your safest choice. All it gives
> > off are electrons and long service. If you remove (saw off) the metal tab from
> > the top/front of the battery box

Please read BATTERY BOX. Cut the BOX into which the battery is put. Do not cut the
battery.

> behind the driver's seat, then the Optima
> > D750S (or D750U) Deep Cycle Battery (Yellow Top) will fit on its side within
> > the battery box. This battery can be mounted in any orientation with no
> > adverse affect.
> >
>
> I spoke with my local dealer about the Optima and potentially "cutting off"
> the posts. She called the Distributer - and we were told that this kind of
> alteration _voids_ the _warrenty_!

Cutting the Vanagon battery BOX is unlikely to invalidate the battery warrantee.

> But Optima is working on a version of
> the battery with posts that will "screw" into either top or side position.

This is the D750U, where U is for Universal, which has both +/- posts on top and
+/-  screw threads on the side. This is the battery that I have installed in our '86
Syncro Westfalia as our auxiliary battery.

Larry