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I had to make another battery bracket because the home depot steel brackets I used started to crack recently. The brackets they sell have holes pre-drilled into them which gave a weak spot...

Its been around 10,000 miles on chopped springs so they were getting a lot of abuse. (This pic has about 5000 miles on it, so you can see not much road grime builds up. You can also see that since the brackets failed my tire was rubbing at the bottom on large bumps)

So I decided to make a new one from 1 piece of steel. I started with a piece of 1/8" thick steel 6.5" wide X 7" tall.

Then bend at the 2" mark from the top, at 140 degrees.

Then drill holes as follows...


Let it be known that I started with 7" tall so I'd have a little extra just in case. I mounted the plate on the bike to see what height I wanted the battery to sit and ended up taking 3/4" off the bottom, which gives just enough room under the seat for the wiring.

Heres it painted..

Nice work Tom!

Great write up. I'd love to do this sometime.

Good write up Tom. On my list of projects for this winter.

excellent stuff man, you wouldn't happen to have a pic of how you stowed your wiring away would you?

Thanks Fellas

Scuba...The hardest part is routing the wiring properly so that nothings hanging down in sight. What I did was unplug every harness in there and find the best route for each (over under around here and there) so nothing would be hanging in the center open area. heres an older pic of when i first did it. Notice the solenoid? in the center with the hose clamp thats wrapped underneath on the top of the battery strap.

Is this in the tech vault?

nope...for some reason none of my patented inventions get put into the tech vault.

That could change...

well dont expect me to jump through any hoops...haha I got well over 10 people "converted" to the open look so far.

Don't pat yourself on the back too hard, you might hurt yourself.

I got bruises

Don't break your arm...

Yeah I need that for bending brackets...(1 customer so far..haha)

You could always farm out the work to Thailand.