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Replacing battery in 93 coupe
How to correctly replace a dead battery in a C4 Corvette
http://www.corvettemagazine.com/2001...ttery/bat1.asp Archiver wrote: > Hello All, > > > It looks like the 7/8 year old battery in my vette has finally given up the > ghost. I popped the hood to see how easy it is to take out, and it looks > like a bitch to deal with. > > After a little googling I saw where people say you have to loosen/remove > the body side panel to get it out. Is this true, and if so, is it easy? I'm > not much of a mechanic unfortunately. > > Any advice would be appreciated. > > > regards, > > > Archiver > |
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Replacing battery in 93 coupe
The first time I replaced a battery in my C4 it took me about an hour.
The next couple of times it took me 15-20 minutes. Taking the screws off and removing the side panel is probably the hardest thing about it. If you are careful, really careful, you can leave the bottoms ones on and bend the panel gently back until you have enough room to remove the battery. One hint: Before you start turn your wheel so you have room to work with in the wheel well. |
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Replacing battery in 93 coupe
Having read through the Corvette Mag article I can say that in all the
years I had a C4 (1985 on) I installed several batteries and never once loosened any rocker panel screws. You can get to the side panel lower bolt fairly easily without doing that. But they seemed to want to make it look hard when the first picture showed the front wheel removed. Later they were removing screws with the front wheel on and point straight ahead. DUH!!! You don't have to remove the wheel but turning to the left makes it much easier to get to those screws. I second the Interstate battery recommendation. That is the only battery company I have bought from in the past 25 years and I have never had a problem with one. They last 4-8 years depending on usage (drive them every day to make them last) and if you ever have a problem, there are dealers everywhere in the US. You can impress people by telling them that the first thing you have to do to replace the battery in a Corvette is remove the fender (think about it, that panel serves the function of a fender on a regular car) but the time to replace a battery should be less than 30 minutes including cleanup. Dale On or about Wed, 29 Mar 2006 19:32:18 -0600, Bob I > wrote or did cause to be written: >How to correctly replace a dead battery in a C4 Corvette >http://www.corvettemagazine.com/2001...ttery/bat1.asp > >Archiver wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> >> It looks like the 7/8 year old battery in my vette has finally given up the >> ghost. I popped the hood to see how easy it is to take out, and it looks >> like a bitch to deal with. >> >> After a little googling I saw where people say you have to loosen/remove >> the body side panel to get it out. Is this true, and if so, is it easy? I'm >> not much of a mechanic unfortunately. >> >> Any advice would be appreciated. >> >> >> regards, >> >> >> Archiver >> |
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