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After pulling out my leaky disentigrating FoMoCo
batteries and installing two new Everstarts from Walmart, I tossed the original battery blankets. What would be the point of replacing them?
Just curious, how old were they? My truck is right at a year and one is leaking already. Looks like they did a good job of absorbing the acid at least!
The "point" of replacing the blankets would be to help protect them from thermal extremes, hopefully to make them live longer.
If you live in a moderate climate then you won't get as much benefit from the blanket.
This is a thing, yes. My F-150 had one that lasted 15 years. It was made of corrugated plastic, something like a cardboard box only a good quality black plastic. The purpose is to extend battery life by insulating it from engine heat. There are aftermarket replacements, but you can buy a thin foil insulation blanket from Lowe's or Home Depot and make one.
Keep us posted on the EverStart batteries. They are highly rated. Will likely be my choice when the time comes.
Some manufacturers equip them in extremely cold locations like the block heater for free or "standard equipment" but they do virtually nothing in the cold. I've been in the Arctic and I've been in the desert where it's regularly over 120 Fahrenheit and only had 1 vehicle with a battery blanket and I forgot to reinstall it when I replaced the original battery after being 4 years old.
They are pretty useless.
Leaking Ford batteries is a thing and has been well documented here on the forums. They all lead around the battery post. You can get a warranty replacement, if your still within you three years, but they give you a new set of leaky batteries.
Project Farm of YouTube fame tested several batteries and the Walmart EverStarts excelled. I paid around $230 for two Group 65N 850 CCA. I would have gone with AGM but don't have forscan to change the charging profile.
Project Farm of YouTube fame tested several batteries and the Walmart EverStarts excelled. I paid around $230 for two Group 65N 850 CCA. I would have gone with AGM but don't have forscan to change the charging profile.
I just replaced my 6 year old Motorcraft batteries with AGM’s. I haven’t heard about having to change anything in forscan. Can you enlighten me?
Project Farm of YouTube fame tested several batteries and the Walmart EverStarts excelled. I paid around $230 for two Group 65N 850 CCA. I would have gone with AGM but don't have forscan to change the charging profile.
Yep, that is why I went with an Everstart in our Honda.
I have heard both ways as far as using AGM. Some change it and others don't. I am also curious exactly what the change does?
Some manufacturers equip them in extremely cold locations like the block heater for free or "standard equipment" but they do virtually nothing in the cold. I've been in the Arctic and I've been in the desert where it's regularly over 120 Fahrenheit and only had 1 vehicle with a battery blanket and I forgot to reinstall it when I replaced the original battery after being 4 years old.
They are pretty useless.
During the 4 years I lived in Fairbanks it would be impossible to start a vehicle at minus 50 F if it did not have a heated battery blanket wrapped around it unless the vehicle was inside a heated garage.
During the 4 years I lived in Fairbanks it would be impossible to start a vehicle at minus 50 F if it did not have a heated battery blanket wrapped around it unless the vehicle was inside a heated garage.
Exactly. None of the factory ones are heated. The military doesn't use any of that crap except block heaters and even then they made a big deal about us plugging them in for a week in between starts. We would have about 5% of our trucks that would start and then we would have to jump all the rest off those.
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