WTF happend to my battery?

[teamexileracing]

K check out these pics.

K i have no idea how this happend, I took a few loops around our track at my friends farm and i was jumping and just flying around our tt track then i turned off the warrior to talk to a friend. And then we went to go to ride again and i tryed to start it and i was flipping out because it wouldnt start. I thought it was the ground that busted out before and i couldnt get the bike to start for a month because it was like in the most complex place to get too and i couldnt find it and when i did it took like 3 hours to get to. But i ended up taking off the seat to see this. Well i took it off and the first time only the negative was broken off. so i just touched it to the battery to start it then about an hour later i went to go start it agin to find the positive was broken off too. I was super pissed.

Does anybody know how this happend and how to prevent it in the future when i replace them.

I think it happend because the space for the battery in the maire plastics is really big and nothing holds it down like a strap or anything and it was just bouncing around and the broke out. I think if i put like somting in gap to stop it from movin would prevent this, what you guys think?

 

[wnk]

Did it have a hold down strap on it?

 

[bberck]

I think it happend because the space for the battery in the maire plastics is really big and nothing holds it down like a strap or anything and it was just bouncing around and the broke out. I think if i put like somting in gap to stop it from movin would prevent this, what you guys think?

I think you got it. ;D

Buddy lost both his one day and we just figured out a away to strap it in better. That battery can do alot of bouncing with no straps.

 

[yamarider]

yeah that's definitely the prob. So the maiers have absolutely no way to hold the battery down? That's shitty. I'd find a way to strap it down, bungee cord or something. Just wedging something in there isn't going to keep it from bouncing up and down.

 

[wnk]

Doh!!! I should have read closer. bberck has it nailed!

 

[jasonp]

Yeah.. you'll also bust the plates inside of the battery out to letting it bounce around like that.

 

[bbbthreat]

Nailed it. Tie that succker down or you'll keep busting it.

 

[teamexileracing]

yes maiers have no way of straping down and the box is too big for the battery. I think im going to use the strap from my stock plastics, cut some slots in it and us that to hold it down, then im going to put somting, perferably a harder fome inbetween the battery and the gap. Idk ill get back on how it gos. I just need to find somthing for that gap.

Thanks guys.