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So the battery in my Sierra's been giving me problems. Leave the dome light on for more than 20 minutes, or leave the cell phone charger plugged in and your likely gonna come out to a dead battery. So I started looking around for a new one. The battery on this truck for some reason is stuffed back against the firewall of the passenger side under an "L" shaped piece of metal tying the quarter panel to the firewall. I went and bought an Interstate MTP-78 battery with side terminals. I didn't pay any attention to the fact that the original (I presume) Delco 7641 is a top post.

 

I get the old battery out stuff the new one in there and then realize that this isn't going to work. The 2 positive cables are sheathed in a plastic form that has them come up the back side of the battery and make a 90 degree turn to go across the top of it to connect to the + post. It also dog legs down to make the connection. Well, that ain't going on a side post battery, especially because there's a battery shelf support that would be dangerously close to the positive connector if I were to put it on there. So now, I've got to decide whether to cut off the stock connector on the battery cables and get a new one or try to return the battery if they'll take it back. It was never hooked up but I don't know if they'll do it or not. CRAP!!!

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Take it back and trade it for a Group 48 or 34. I run an Optima Red top 34R in mine and love it because my truck was dying after an hour of the radio being on. The group 34 battery's are much cheaper than the factory group 48.

u118224 Enthusiast

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Take it back and get the correct battery. If you bought it at a parts store and gave them the vehicle year and make, they made the mistake and should take it back with no problems.

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While at lunch I called the guy and he said to bring it on back and he'd change it out. I just hate missing a detail like that and causing me to have to traipse back across town to deal with this.

 

But, it is what it is...

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