Lead Acid Battery to AGM
Mike RoenDescription
Battery technology has come a very long way since the 1970s. The conventional style, lead acid, battery that was originally used on Mike’s 1977 Shovelhead is not the ideal battery for today’s world.
Here, Mike covers a topic where many Shovelhead owners may already be familiar. This is, upgrading from a conventional lead, acid battery to a maintenance-free AGM battery.
An AGM battery is not only preferable because it does not require maintenance. A conventional battery can leak acid on your motorcycle. This can ruin paint, chrome, or polished surfaces.
A maintenance free battery is considerably smaller, but can fit securely behind the battery covers after adding wood and foam shims.
Hey, welcome back to fix my hog. I'm Mike Roan. Got our great little tech tip. I wanna share with you today up on lifts my 77 shovel and of course, uh these bikes come stocked with a huge lead acid battery that spews acid all over your motorcycle and just tears it all apart. So I wanted nothing to do with that. So I kind of updated this thing to a maintenance free battery. Let me show you what I got going on. I got all the moats kind of loose here so we can just pop this little strap off and we'll pull this out of the way here. Got the cover. And of course, if you're gonna be messing around this thing, you're gonna wanna disconnect your negative cable and I'll show you what I, what I ended up doing here was, of course, you can see, I, I just put a bunch of shims in here. I got some pink insulation you could use plywood. I got a piece of wood down here. I got another pad over here because I wanted to put this nice little maintenance free battery in here. You know, I don't need the big Momo battery. These batteries are so good. Now, I got the, the style here where the bolt mounts right to the post. There's no little nut in there floating around, no little standoff. So kind of improvise, you know, when you're, when you're doing a little restore on your old bike, it's gotta let us battery. This is a ticket. So, all right. Hey, thanks for tuning in.
Do you have the part # for the AGM battery that fits ? Thanks