Rod Hower wrote:
> One of the biggest advantages for me was throwing the batteries in the
> bed
> with minimal restraint so I could drive it
I would recommend against this for safety reasons, even if you plan to
put them underneath later. if you don't plan to put them under later,
then you lose functionality of your truck
> You can then take the next step and put in a nice battery rack under
> the bed
do this right from the start
> The biggest pain in the neck of converting a vehicle in my opinion is
> creating
> battery racks and getting them all stuffed into the vehicle.
not really a pain for a pickup - that is one of its chief advantages.
A simple set of steel flatbar U's supporting the actual boxes is not
that hard to do. my dad and I had no trouble and we didn't have any
experience working with steel (we hired a welder for the installation
however)
If anyone wants a good idea of what it takes to do an S-10 conversion,
go to my website. I kept a journal for the whole project and pretty
much everything is in there. There are also about 300 pictures from
the conversion process. Feel free to email me with any questions...
Seth
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