Publice Service Announcement

[Jordan Baker]

After much thought Im positng this so that other may "LEARN FROM MY MISTAKE."

If youve seen my newest photos in my carrier thread you will understand how this happend. Since my original intention had been to just go for a quick drive and nothing more I did't bother to strap the battery down. I had not yet re-installed the battery tray as it was sitting on my floor at home. Anyway I got carried away by the carrier and was happily bouncing around for 30 minutes. I shut the engine off so that I could ask my friend to open to gate. When I climbed back in I noticed something was wrong with the battery. I yelled over to him that "half of it was gone". He thought I was joking around but after telling him ot come over he did, thinking i was goin to say "got yah." He come over and say "holy crap it is half gone."

Anyway what had happend was that with all the bumping around the UNSECURED BATTERY had slid back to right under the exhaust manifold. Normally this wouldn't be a problem if I had had a proper exhaust system but I don't yet. The result can be seen below. Strangely it must have run like that for about 10 minutes or more. Acid was everywhere in the back part of the carrier along with melted plastic. Lots of water from a hose fixed that.

I hope my screw up will prevent someone else from doing the same thing.

Public Service Announcement over.