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Tmaker
06-01-2009, 09:22 PM
My battery is the 2002 TJ stock battery and isnt holding up while winching . What is the battery to get? I dont want double up so what is the best single?
Don
06-01-2009, 09:37 PM
I got the NAPA Excite Gell Battery..... it was far from cheap, but it has never so much as burped after some serious abuse.
YJason
06-01-2009, 09:41 PM
I smell an open can of worms

http://www.buddy-icons.info/img/smile/1550.gif
RecycledTeen
06-01-2009, 09:44 PM
Peeyouuuuuuu!!!! the acid sure smells bad doesn't it Jason?
fjmf
06-01-2009, 10:09 PM
I'm no electrician but I would think 2 cheap deep cells would be better then 1 good battery (there goes the worms)....
BillM
06-02-2009, 10:57 AM
Go with a deep cycle battery that is gel. I would go with something other than Optima though. They are not the quality that they used to be.

As far as "serious abuse" on Don's battery.......Well, let's just say I have seen Don wheel. Serious abuse are not the words I would use. ;)
Don
06-02-2009, 11:02 AM
Go with a deep cycle battery that is gel. I would go with something other than Optima though. They are not the quality that they used to be.

As far as "serious abuse" on Don's battery.......Well, let's just say I have seen Don wheel. Serious abuse are not the words I would use. ;)

x2 on the Optima batteries.

serious abuse was winching 7 or 8 vehicles in a row up a long hill, not that my wheel-n style is hardcore because it isn't :)
BillM
06-02-2009, 11:09 AM
See Don has to spoil everyone's fun. He just messed up my joke completely. Don you need to start playing right.
jeepercreeper
06-02-2009, 10:53 PM
I have had the Optima yellow top for over a year with zero issues...
YJason
06-02-2009, 11:03 PM
I'd buy 1 good battery and upgrade the wiring and alternator