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There is a plastic removable tab in the bottom of the battery tray that needs to be removed for a h8 battery.
Corey bought an eliminator for his Cherokee, I think most applications have an option to eliminate that. I think he paid 135 bucks.
Oh, trust me I bought the “Auto stop/start eliminator” a couple of days later. It’s a 22 Lariat. I recently traded my wife’s RAV4 for a slightly used 23 Grand Cherokee, now if I could just find a way to permanently deactivate the auto stop start feature in it. Does anybody know any tricks? I don’t think you can unplug that little sensor on the battery like you could on the previous generation to deactivate it.
Bigger must be better, correct? Gosh!, look at the lampoon of "Tim, the Tool Man Taylor"!!! He was always rewiring, adding power, and a host of other ridiculing actions to make light of consequences unseen or not considered. Launching the Barbeque pit like the space shuttle was pretty cute!
There's a company called Autostop Eliminator that makes what you're looking for, not sure about your specific year.
Yes, that’s what I used and it works quite well!
Darn,Bigger must be better, correct? Gosh!, look at the lampoon of "Tim, the Tool Man Taylor"!!! He was always rewiring, adding power, and a host of other ridiculing actions to make light of consequences unseen or not considered. Launching the Barbeque pit like the space shuttle was pretty cute!
Now, seriously, let's answer your question with FACTS, not Ruhr! Ruhr! Ruhr! man-stuff urban beliefs steeped in the aroma of testosterone.
The fact is, your truck uses OBD2 enhanced CAN/BUS to monitor and control the maintenance of the STATE OF CHARGE of the battery. This is programmed into the PCM, and in some cases, the BCM gets involved. An alternator is not designed to nor is it capable of repeated deep discharge rejuvenation of a battery. It is designed to MAINTAIN a state of charge. This is done by monitoring the capacitance % at different levels of systems demands.
In a nutshell, TOO large of a battery will outstrip the ability for the alternator to keep a battery up to the level of capacitance designed into the particular vehicle. There ARE circumstances where a larger battery CAN be retrofitted, but one needs to consult FACTORY guidelines as to that end.
Many's the time I've been called upon to solve the cycle where a hapless guy puts too large of a battery in a vehicle, and all's just ticker tape and champagne at first. A few months later, the alternator fails due to constantly trying to maintain capacitance of too much battery, and succumbing to heat failure, as evidenced by crispy black field windings. So, he replaces the alternator, it now tries to maintain a weak battery, and the battery fails 6 months or so later. New battery gets installed, and the alternator fails soon thereafter. And so on. My solution EVERY TIME has been to install the correct battery and a new alternator at the same time.... SUCCESS!
In closing, make sure your truck can handle the "Voltmaster 5000 by Binford" by consulting factory specs. Good luck!
, Tim is my primary mechanic ...With the E-Tourque - IHMO I would get the factory specification, as the E-Tourque is a far different and more complex system from my truck which is just the 5.7 non-E-torque system.
From those spec and the part# on the side of the battery, that is the same battery spec for the Hemi long before the e-Torque option and it's an OEM part.
Don't worry Sherms always got some Doom Sayer news. I've been running a huge group 31 for many years in my truck,and it's also relocated to the box of the truck,and the alternator works perfectly fine at keeping it charged.Darn,
How did you know I put in the "Voltmaster 5000", along with Binford's new "Super Alternator 12K,!"
I love me, some Binford Tools and Hardware
Well now that I have read what you had to say, I now look back at the above information
I am not a mechanic, so I rely on the information from several forums/message bases to make what I think are reasonable decisions on repair/maintenance tasks/measures. Yours is the first cautionary tale that I have read, wish, I had seen this a few weeks ago
Now I guess I wait to see what the "roll of the dice," brings. I do, keep my on the voltage gauge, in the display page. The voltage ranges from 14.0-14.5 volts when on the freeway. Far less than the 14.8 volts, when the factory battery was near the end of life (lasted almost 5 full years just short of a few weeks.) So I hope, I do not, "fry" the electronics so to speak.
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