Yesterday, I did a little more work on the car.
I put the driver-side under-fender back on. This was good, because without it, snow shoots right into the door hinge and then the door doesn't open right.
I finally started recycling the political sign for work on the belly pan.
I cut it to rough size and then crawled under the car. The front of the recycled coroplast was pinned to the car's bumper cover with a couple of self-tapping screws and washers.
There really wasn't any good place to screw the back end of the coroplast, nor the sides, because that's where the wheels (which move up and down) are.
For the back of the coroplast, I zip-tied it to the conduit, which is suspended under the car carrying cables from the back to the front of the car. I also zip-tied the coroplast in the middle to the conduit.
Then, I cut the sides of the cororplast to make room for the suspension, and the wheels to be able to bounce up and down.
The while back, when we got the motor and transmission back in the car, a lot of other things were moved out of the way for the work. This included removing the charger for the 12V car battery.
I am using a 12V trickle charger I already had (and never really had a good use for before) It is wired directly to 12V battery in the front of the car.
A problem with this charger, is that it's a weird shape, and there is no hole or any other simple say to bolt it to the car.
The charger does have two slots or notches, it takes some sort of crazy bracket (which I DON'T have) to mount it.
What I did have was two L-brackets and a bolt. I bent both L-brackets into an S shape and ran a bolt between the two, so that they would squeeze the charger, with the flat ends poking into the charger.
The flat end of the larger L-bracket tucks under the battery, which is held down by a traditional battery bracket.
The two charger wires use the bolts on the top-posts of the battery to connect with ring connectors.
In the above photo, just a little below and to the left of the red wire nut, you can see a female extension cord end. The trickle charger plugs in here, and the wires run to the back of the car, and connect, along with the 72V battery charger, to the AC charging port.
In this way, both the 72V and 12V batteries charge up whenever the car is plugged in.
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