The Dual Battery System is in and its taken a fair bit of planning and space allocation but I have installed the heavy wiring, breakers, trip switches and rear accessory sockets to my Prado.
Due to the limited space we made drill templates and performed dummy installations before finally drilling the car and fitting wiring and parts.
I am now jigging up for final tooling and I am very happy with the progress we have made. The battery tray worked out great with a perfect a/c and power-steering mod that won't affect any factory warranties. Petrol and diesel models will use the same tray.
Notes: Due to the a/c pipework the battery space is limited to 10 inches or 255mm. Even after moving and relocating the a/c mounting bracket we can only fit a 60ah battery. With this limited space we have made the new battery a high cca battery for starting the engine and made the old starting battery the new aux battery. (N70 / 12 inch fits here).
Regards
Derek from ABR
The image below shows the a/c mounting on the petrol and diesel, this common mounting point limits battery size. The pipe is a rigid pipe and has 'T' offs for the rear a/c so can't be moved.
Note: The Black bracket can not be removed only bent 90 deg out of the way as the common bolt holds the bracket to the a/c pipe and also compresses the a/c o-ring. (Do not attempt to loosen this bracket as you will loose the a/c gas.)
Due to the limited space we made drill templates and performed dummy installations before finally drilling the car and fitting wiring and parts.
I am now jigging up for final tooling and I am very happy with the progress we have made. The battery tray worked out great with a perfect a/c and power-steering mod that won't affect any factory warranties. Petrol and diesel models will use the same tray.
Notes: Due to the a/c pipework the battery space is limited to 10 inches or 255mm. Even after moving and relocating the a/c mounting bracket we can only fit a 60ah battery. With this limited space we have made the new battery a high cca battery for starting the engine and made the old starting battery the new aux battery. (N70 / 12 inch fits here).
Regards
Derek from ABR
The image below shows the a/c mounting on the petrol and diesel, this common mounting point limits battery size. The pipe is a rigid pipe and has 'T' offs for the rear a/c so can't be moved.
Note: The Black bracket can not be removed only bent 90 deg out of the way as the common bolt holds the bracket to the a/c pipe and also compresses the a/c o-ring. (Do not attempt to loosen this bracket as you will loose the a/c gas.)
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