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Hans

Member Since: 12 Jan 2010
Location: Lot, France
Posts: 45

2008 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 SW Keswick Green

Battery compartment cover

Last weekend I needed access to my Puma's battery to help start an excavator in a friend's backyard.

The friend didn't believe I could get there with my Def, but driving to the excavator took less time than removing the sliding cover plate over the battery compartment. It was stuck hard and I needed pliers to get it out. I didn't put it back into place afterwards.

Did anyone else have similar problems? How can I prevent this? Hans
http://www.orlaya.fr

17th Nov 2010 11:42am

BigMike

Member Since: 13 Jul 2010
Location: Lancashire
Posts: 2253

They can get a bit sticky. How old is the vehicle?

17th Nov 2010 11:50am

Grockle

Member Since: 24 Nov 2008
Location: Peak District National Park
Posts: 2266

2008 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Tonga Green

smear grease on the cover where it slides 2.4 90 XS
1968 1/32 scale Britains 109 Pick up.

17th Nov 2010 11:52am

Hans

Member Since: 12 Jan 2010
Location: Lot, France
Posts: 45

Grockle wrote:
smear grease on the cover where it slides

That's what I was going to do.
The Def is 2.5 years old. Hans
http://www.orlaya.fr

17th Nov 2010 1:21pm

The Boy

Member Since: 28 Aug 2008
Location: East Northants
Posts: 1459

2009 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Rimini Red

Like you I often have to jump start plant about the yard so I fitted an Anderson socket on the front bumper and made a 5m jump cables. Has saved me no end of time and was a really useful mod to do.

Boy

17th Nov 2010 3:10pm

WarPig

Member Since: 05 Dec 2009
Location: Sheffield
Posts: 1748

1996 Defender 110 300 Tdi USW Bonatti Grey

The Boy wrote:
Like you I often have to jump start plant about the yard so I fitted an Anderson socket on the front bumper and made a 5m jump cables. Has saved me no end of time and was a really useful mod to do.

Boy

Any chance of some photos of where exactly you have placed your anderson connectors please?

Ive just fitted a set to the outside of my seat box, but the front bumper would be a more conveinient place for them. Did you need to fit any kind of weather/dirt proof coverings?

Cheers

17th Nov 2010 3:48pm

leeds

Member Since: 28 Dec 2009
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 8582

If fitting an Anderson connector outside the vehicle I would suggest an isolation switch, a dust cover and a pvc boot over where the cables go into the connector.

Currently I am rewriting what I put HERE into a more informative form.

However I do not have any photos of bumper/rear cross member mounted Anderson connectors. If anyone has such photos I could use I would be grateful.

I have a photo of an Anderson connector placed in the wing top. Well away from the wet and gloop. Will dig that photo out later if anyone is interested.

Brendan

17th Nov 2010 4:11pm

The Boy

Member Since: 28 Aug 2008
Location: East Northants
Posts: 1459

Not much to show really but on the near side of the bumper. What is spooky is that one of the men has just came in and asked if I could jump one of the forklifts. Took about two minutes. Cost very little to fit and took a Saturday morning to do it.

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17th Nov 2010 4:17pm

Ads90

Member Since: 16 Jun 2008
Location: Cots-on-the-Wolds
Posts: 813

2007 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 CSW Keswick Green

Sorry - off topic - but are those Nakatanenga driving/fog lamps you have in your bumper The Boy?
They are very neat, but tiny - do they pack any decent punch, or are they a bit like bright cruise lights?

17th Nov 2010 4:50pm

The Boy

Member Since: 28 Aug 2008
Location: East Northants
Posts: 1459

First four bumper 5 or 6mm with recovery points. Lights are not very good but I find they give a good sweep for the first 6-7m, good on tracks for low speed driving. The other lights do all the rest I need. I didn't buy it for the lights but for the strength and recovery points

http://www.firstfour.co.uk/

17th Nov 2010 4:59pm

leeds

Member Since: 28 Dec 2009
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 8582

An interesting place to keep an A nderson connector at the front of your vehicle

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Not quite a neat job at the rear

Click image to enlarge

Hope those shots prove to be of interest to some people

Brendan

Admin note: this post has had its images recovered from a money grabbing photo hosting site and reinstated

18th Nov 2010 12:04am

Hans

Member Since: 12 Jan 2010
Location: Lot, France
Posts: 45

The Boy wrote:
Like you I often have to jump start plant about the yard so I fitted an Anderson socket on the front bumper and made a 5m jump cables. Has saved me no end of time and was a really useful mod to do.

Boy

That looks like a great solution. Hans
http://www.orlaya.fr

19th Nov 2010 12:43pm

The Boy

Member Since: 28 Aug 2008
Location: East Northants
Posts: 1459

Hans wrote:
The Boy wrote:
Like you I often have to jump start plant about the yard so I fitted an Anderson socket on the front bumper and made a 5m jump cables. Has saved me no end of time and was a really useful mod to do.

Boy

That looks like a great solution.

It is Hans yes! Really is worth doing. I aways seem to be the one behind the guy on the ferry who has a flat battery and so can jump the vehicle in front and away we go. Don't forget (someone has already pointed this out) to put a cut off swtich on the live lead just for safety.

19th Nov 2010 1:49pm

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