narrowly adverted a disaster

[sean griffith]

today i narrowly adverted a disaster, i was replacing the house batteries on my 99 31ft four winds class c and i noticed that the battery frame was wobbly for lack of a better word. i started looking for the culprit and found that the frame was only held onto the RV with two bolts and two sheet mettle screws. hardly strong enough in my opinion to hold up 100lb + of batteries or even 1 battery for that matter. i drilled new holes and added 2 grade 8 bolts in addition to the two existing bolts. i would suggest that everyone check their batteries and the mounts to make sure you don't have a similar situation. id hate to think what would happen if the batteries were to fall out of the coach while traveling down the highway at 60mph

just an fyi

[sean griffith]

today i narrowly adverted a disaster, i was replacing the house batteries on my 99 31ft four winds class c and i noticed that the battery frame was wobbly for lack of a better word. i started looking for the culprit and found that the frame was only held onto the RV with two bolts and two sheet mettle screws. hardly strong enough in my opinion to hold up 100lb + of batteries or even 1 battery for that matter. i drilled new holes and added 2 grade 8 bolts in addition to the two existing bolts. i would suggest that everyone check their batteries and the mounts to make sure you don't have a similar situation. id hate to think what would happen if the batteries were to fall out of the coach while traveling down the highway at 60mph

just an fyi

[Frankie]

Sean,welcome to Irv2.com. Thanks for the great advice and warning about the battery compartment.

[george henry]

That would be a DISASTER . Welcome to iRv2.com

[dmatt]

Thanks for the heads up. I'll have to take a look at mine