Installed new batteries - have a fuse question.

[krminyl@...]

John,

Glad you got the new batts. Those suckers are heavy! Didn't realize how
heavy they were until I put all six in the back of my pickup. I didn't quite
understand your comment about the battery caps from Exide...could you possibly
report your comment?

Can't help you on the fuse issue...the only fuses I'm aware of in my engine
compartment are the ones I put there. My burglar alarm fuse is under my
dash...


Kevin McKeown
Yorba Linda, CA
1986 38' PT


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[Adria Haynes]

I wound up getting the Batteries from Sams club that I asked about.
The deal to lock and unlock the water caps says Exide in it, BTW.
Thanks for the positive feeedbacks about getting them.

Anyways, inside the battery compartment of my 1980 35FC, there is a
small 4 place fuse panel with two on top and two more right below
them. The top two are 20 amp ones and the bottom two are both 15.

The upper left one was blown. I looked in the diagram sheets in the
books from the blue box, to see what it went to, and the info
doesn't jive. The drawings claim that my bus only has a three panel
fuse box there - that there are (2) 2 amp fuses and a single 20 amp
fuse - all in a vertical row arrangement. It calls out the 20 as
being for the burgler alarm system. With my arrangement being so
different AND having more than one 20 amp fuse, I know not to trust
it.

Does anybody with a similar vintage bus have this configuration and
can you please tell me what "thing" is blowing that fuse.

Incidently, after installing the new batteries, I hit the key and
have never had the bus start faster than that in my 15 months of
ownership.

Any help is appreciated,

John

[Adria Haynes]

Instead of having three seperate caps - they have one mechanism that
unlocks all 3 of the caps and holds them at the same time - and THAT
thing reads Exide on it.


--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, krminyl@a... wrote:
> John,
>
> Glad you got the new batts. Those suckers are heavy! Didn't
realize how
> heavy they were until I put all six in the back of my pickup. I
didn't quite
> understand your comment about the battery caps from Exide...could
you possibly
> report your comment?
>
> Can't help you on the fuse issue...the only fuses I'm aware of in
my engine
> compartment are the ones I put there. My burglar alarm fuse is
under my
> dash...
>
>
> Kevin McKeown
> Yorba Linda, CA
> 1986 38' PT
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]