Battery Box

Nice Job !!

Sounds like a project for me also.

Thanks BarneyS - I've got a battery replacement coming up soon and need to do something using the steel battery box for possibility of theft prevention. My batteries will also be on the trailer tongue area.

I see ETRAILER carries these TORKLIFT boxes... They have lots of photos of them comparing to other boxes. The slide off lid would be big plus here. I know the older TORKLIFT design had a hasp type lock using a standard shank type lock. That wouldn't last anytime with a lock cutter around.

Roy Ken

TxTwoSome wrote:
Downtheroad

I made the bar storage bars they are 1/2" thick aluminum by 1 3/4" wide by 8" long with a 1.450" hole on the end and held on to frame by a U bolt.

TxTwoSome ,
Thanks...I have trunion instead of round bars, but you have me thinking. I feel a fun project coming on.

Downtheroad

I made the bar storage bars they are 1/2" thick aluminum by 1 3/4" wide by 8" long with a 1.450" hole on the end and held on to frame by a U bolt.

I like the box...but, I really like the spring bar storage set up that I see in the pictures..

Got any details on that?

RoyB wrote:
I really have not looked at these TORKLIFT boxes close before but from the photos I don't see where battery vents are located...

Notice the approx 3/8in space between the lid and the box ends in the OP's pictures. Plus there is a approx 2in hole in the rear for the cables to enter and exit the box. There is plenty of air able to get to the batteries for ventilation.
I have just about the same box on my trailer tongue.
Barney

I really have not looked at these TORKLIFT BATTERY boxes close before but from the photos I don't see where battery vents are located...