How to initiate trial run of C5 battery tray removal
Discussion
1. With 2 hours of daylight left before leaving for Le Mans ferry and lots of packing etc to do, decide to fit new batery
2. Take 8mm spanner and remove negative terminal
3. ditto positive terminal
4. remove battery
5. Collect new Optima battery kindly supplied by Keith B
6. call KB to advise it is the wrong type; retreat from telephone call feeling an idiot
7. Insert battery
8. Tighten positive terminal
9. Ditto negative terminal
10. Adjust hold on spanner to give final tighten, fumble and drop spanner
11. Observe and cogitate on spanner perched on ledge below the battery which hand cannot get to
12. Get long snouted fishy thing for removing hooks from fishys
13. Drop spanner down into the void
14. Consider driving to Le Mans with spanner rolling about but decide removal is preferable
15. Hunt down spare 8mm spanner for removal of new battery
16. Commence removal of negative terminal
17. Drop 2nd spanner down into the void
18. Get socket set and 8mm socket. Attach 1/4" to 1/2" drive converter
19. Present socket to negative terminal, not enough room
20. Panic; wife with small hands and forearms not avaialble. Homebase 45 mins walk each way
21. Get down under car and consider ripping floor apart - bad idea
22. Tear garage apart & stumble upon a collection of old spanners
23. Thank God humbly for providing a 3rd 8mm spanner
24. Approach battery with vice like grip on spanner and remove negative and positive terminals
25. Remove Optima batery
26. Establish that it makes not a blind bit of difference and that the tray has to come out
27. Retire for coffee and quick check in the service manual to ensure nothing stupid involved in tray removal
28. Find 13mm spanner and remove the 4 bolts
29. Remove tray
30. Retrieve 2 8mm spanners with big grin
31.repeat steps 29-28 and 8-9 applying same vice like grip
30 Ponder how all the packing is going to be accomplished in 30 minutes
The morale is of course when departing for Le Mans don't play with anything that aint broke!
2. Take 8mm spanner and remove negative terminal
3. ditto positive terminal
4. remove battery
5. Collect new Optima battery kindly supplied by Keith B
6. call KB to advise it is the wrong type; retreat from telephone call feeling an idiot
7. Insert battery
8. Tighten positive terminal
9. Ditto negative terminal
10. Adjust hold on spanner to give final tighten, fumble and drop spanner
11. Observe and cogitate on spanner perched on ledge below the battery which hand cannot get to
12. Get long snouted fishy thing for removing hooks from fishys
13. Drop spanner down into the void
14. Consider driving to Le Mans with spanner rolling about but decide removal is preferable
15. Hunt down spare 8mm spanner for removal of new battery
16. Commence removal of negative terminal
17. Drop 2nd spanner down into the void
18. Get socket set and 8mm socket. Attach 1/4" to 1/2" drive converter
19. Present socket to negative terminal, not enough room
20. Panic; wife with small hands and forearms not avaialble. Homebase 45 mins walk each way
21. Get down under car and consider ripping floor apart - bad idea
22. Tear garage apart & stumble upon a collection of old spanners
23. Thank God humbly for providing a 3rd 8mm spanner
24. Approach battery with vice like grip on spanner and remove negative and positive terminals
25. Remove Optima batery
26. Establish that it makes not a blind bit of difference and that the tray has to come out
27. Retire for coffee and quick check in the service manual to ensure nothing stupid involved in tray removal
28. Find 13mm spanner and remove the 4 bolts
29. Remove tray
30. Retrieve 2 8mm spanners with big grin
31.repeat steps 29-28 and 8-9 applying same vice like grip
30 Ponder how all the packing is going to be accomplished in 30 minutes
The morale is of course when departing for Le Mans don't play with anything that aint broke!
Funny that, I dropped a small screwdriver down there when I changed my battery to a red top, luckily managed to spot it with a borescope, and maneuver it out with a 3 pronged grab, like one of those things your gran used to have for getting pickled onions out of the jar !! Glad its all sorted now, the Optimas are brilliant.
Hello Mr Yellowshark, sorry, a borescope is one of those clever fibre optic viewing scopes with a built in lamp, used for inspecting cylinder walls and valves etc, through the plugole. Great for engine work, looking for corrosion in chassis sections and also for retrieving dropped tools !! So if you ever need one, you know where one is !!
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